Paying Fees
Financial questions?
Contact the court's financial unit at seafin@wawd.uscourts.gov or call (206) 370-8415.
The Fee Schedule (PDF) shows the fees collected by the court.
Please send all payments to:
Clerk
U.S. District Court
700 Stewart Street, Suite 2310
Seattle, WA 98101
You may instead call or visit the Seattle or Tacoma courthouses.
Accepted payment methods:
- Credit card payment for fines, restitution, and other miscellaneous fees.
- Credit card payment for registered CM/ECF users who are paying fees
- Money orders
- Personal check. Please note that there is a $53 fee if checks are returned for insufficient funds. When you provide a check as payment, you authorize the Clerk's Office to either use the information from your check to make a one-time electronic fund transfer from your account or to process the payment as a check transaction.
The Clerk's Office does not accept cash for payments of any kind.