Fee-Calculator court proceedings, 1. Instance in Germany (no guarantee)

amount of claim - Streitwert: Berechnen

Fee for installing - Verfahrensgebühr:

Fee for conducting - Terminsgebühr:

Court Fees - Gerichtskosten:

Total of Fees for court and lawyer - Gesamtsumme:

worst-case risk - Prozessrisiko:

We kindly ask for your understanding, that besides our offers in general court fees cannot be covered by our office, meaning that the client has to provide us with the court fees in advance. The plaintiff has to pay court fees in advance.

The court and lawyer fees relate to a legal table (Table 1 see below), which is binding by law. The amount depends on the amount in controversy (amount of claim). You also find explanations how to calculate the fees in your case.

Besides the legal table we offer better conditions to keep your fees small.
Often it is possible to achieve a writ of execution/judgment and to collect the debt without investing regular fees in total (in legal dunning proceedings, court summons, "order to pay a debt").

Special offers in court proceedings:
We can check if it is possible that you pay no fees at all especially the case meets the following conditions:

• the debt is not contested (no legal relevant objections out of court like defect of goods, bad quality, breach of contract, partial delivery, malperformance, late delivery, counterclaims etc),

• we dispose of a valid postal address and all contact details of the debtor (phone, fax, mobile, email, website) are available and it is possible to contact the debtor in fact,

• we dispose of all documents like invoices, delivery notes (POD, proof of delivery), correspondence

• signed Letter of Authorisation (PoA)

• the debtor still is solvent due to our prior investigations.

Furthermore it is possible to free you from any costs to start court proceedings if you accept a higher commission/success fee (15-35%) to cover our risks.

Please ask for your individual offer for free!

We reserve to claim for the total of the legal fees if the debtor lodges an appeal against a court order or contests the debt in court proceedings (defect of goods, malperformance, late delivery, breach of contract, counterclaims etc.). We will inform you about the total of fees at an early stage or on request. Certainly you can decide not pursue the claim further on.

In this case we charge in accordance with the legal table for Court and Lawyer fees like mentioned in Table 1. 

At this stage of proceedings we have to check the legal position in-depth, have to file a Statement of Claim in detail and further pleadings to the court, have to present documents and proof to the court, have to refute the assertions of the debtor in detail and have to attend to court hearings.

To estimate fees in court proceedings the amounts of the red marked line/row of the legal table below are to add (see last column "in total").

In court proceedings Lawyer fees are amounting as follows: for initiating/institution and performing/conducting court proceedings a German Lawyer is entitled to charge:
- a 1,3 fee (initiating proceedings - all communications, discussions with the client, research of facts and information, preparation of Statement of Claim, pleadings, applications) and
- a 1,2 fee (conducting of court proceedings, all court hearings, communication with the client and the counterparty)
related to the legal table like performed in the schedule mentioned below.

Here you find the legal table for Court and Lawyer's Fees (extract).
For court proceedings please add up the amounts of the red marked line/row*.

Table 1  - Legal Table for Fees in Germany

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*not included: expenses for copies, translations, expert fees, travel expenses (court), court hearing (150,00 EUR-350,00 EUR), costs and fees of enforcement proceedings (like bailiff, seizure of bank accounts etc.).

To calculate the worst-case-risk (you would lose the case in total) you have to consider 3 steps:
1. Choose the line of your claim
2. Add the red marked amounts in the line
3. Add (only) Lawyer's fees once more (fees of the opposite Lawyer)

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