St. Martin Parish Clerk of Court Guide

Note: Louisiana imposes no statewide probate tax and no value-bracket court-cost scale; each parish Clerk of Court sets its own advance court-cost deposit under the La. R.S. 13:841 maximums. No published St. Martin succession-specific civil deposit was located in this pass, so the formal_administration figure records the parish's published cost to record the judgment of possession that closes most successions ($110 for 1-5 pages); confirm the actual succession-opening advance deposit with the Clerk of Court. A small succession affidavit is not filed with the court but, for real estate, is recorded in the parish conveyance records: recording is $110 for 1-5 pages, $210 for 6-25 pages, and $310 for 26-50 pages (each recorded document includes a $5 LCRAA remote-access fee and a $5 parish-government fee assessed in St. Martin Parish); the small_estate_affidavit and recording_judgment_of_possession figures reflect this $110 recording cost. Additional certified copies are $5 each. The statutory default succession representative compensation is 2.5% of the inventory (La. C.C.P. art. 3351). Verify current amounts with the Clerk of Court before relying on a figure.