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MILKS v. CARDEN

No. 80-102.

598 S.W.2d 744 (1980)

Dorothy MILKS, Petitioner, v. C. M. CARDEN, Chancellor and Jimmy Seals, Chancery Clerk, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

May 27, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Central Arkansas Legal Services, Inc. by Christopher E. Rand, Jerome M. Rephan, Griffin J. Stockley, Jr., Simmons S. Smith, Hot Springs, for petitioner.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by Debby Thetford Nye, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for respondents.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

The petitioner, an indisputably indigent person, sought to file a suit for divorce in the Saline Chancery Court without paying the required $20 filing fee. The chancellor recognized that the petitioner is indigent, but entered an order that "reiterates [the court's] policy of disallowing any such fee waivers in this Judicial District." In this court the petitioner seeks a writ of mandamus to compel the chancellor and the court clerk to...

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