<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Good Afternoon -</span><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">I have a contentious ongoing probate where I brought a Motion in Spokane County and in his responsive pleadings, opposing counsel brought a Motion to Change Venue to Stevens County. The Judge declined to rule on my Motion and Ordered the Change of Venue.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Transferring the case requires payment of the Stevens County filing fee and a Spokane County processing fee. Opposing counsel did not pay these costs.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Several months have passed and despite efforts to negotiate a settlement of this matter with opposing counsel, opposing counsel declined our last offer with no counter-offer and now has stopped responding to communications. I have not heard from him in over a month.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">I think my best approach at this point is to file a Notice of Mediation.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Since the Order Changing Venue was entered in the Spokane court file and record, do we now have to pay the filing fee and processing fee in order to file the case? Or what happens if I file it in the open case in Spokane County?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Any thoughts?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><i style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">Amy J. 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