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 Seattle case payments to: Clerk U.S. District Court 700 Stewart Street, Suite 2310 Seattle, WA 98101 |
Please send all Tacoma case payments to: Clerk U.S. District Court 1717 Pacific Ave, Room 3100 Tacoma, WA 98402 |
You may instead call or visit the Seattle or Tacoma courthouses.
Accepted payment methods:
- Credit card payment for miscellaneous fees. Credit cards are not accepted for fines or restitution payments.
- Credit card and ACH payments for fees paid through CM/ECF (registered users only)
- Cashier's check
- Money order
- Personal check. Please note that there is a $53 fee if checks are returned for insufficient funds.
Notice to Persons Making Payment by Check
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. For inquiries, please call the Clerk's Office at 206-370-8400.
Privacy Act
A Privacy Act Statement required by 5 U.S.C. § 552a(e)(3) stating our authority for soliciting and collecting the information from your check, and explaining the purposes and routine uses that will be made of your check information, is available from the Federal Register at https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2003/02/04/03-2521/privacy-act-of-1974-as-amended-system-of-records. You can obtain a copy by mail by calling (toll free) 1-866-945-7920. Furnishing the check information is voluntary, but a decision not to do so may require you to make payment by some other method.
The Clerk's Office does not accept cash for payments of any kind.