If you have significant assets, kids are involved or the divorce is contested, fees can be even higher.
Its no less publicised, but more contested, fee-paying hospital services brought in nearly $30m, from more than 5,000 foreign patients.
The findings can be contested for a $35 fee, to be refunded if an appeal is successful.
In January, New York's attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, contested the hundred-million-dollar fee sought by the executors of her estate, who include two of her grandchildren.
For the past three years the 3.5% of the licence fee he wants "contested" has been spent on something that has nothing to do with BBC programming, it is being spent on digital switchover.
Although a hotly contested issue in Washington, swipe fees barely register as a concern to most Americans.
"I learned it's tough to compete against a small, desperate contractor who's willing to work without a fee," says Hudson, who contested the award but lost.
This type of court was developed to avoid too many legal fees for relatively small, contested amounts.
And he said the club also contested the village's imposition of $16,000 in fees for processing the appeal.
Among items likely to be contested are $738 million in proposed new taxes and fees, and Mr. Spitzer's plan to scale back the school property tax program, which returns money to homeowners to offset property taxes.
Much of the public debate has not been about the merits of the suit; instead, opponents contested the authority's legal right to file the suit and its contingency fee arrangement with a private law firm.
