It amazes me sometimes how willing some individuals are to put something out there with this level of spelling and grammar, slap a name on it, and impugn someone else's intellectual faculties.  Well done though, Lu, you really got there.

That said--what you're seeing the new laws doing is differentiating between hard, passed through charges, and free-form "labor charges" like the copy costs you and "all these title proffessionals" are pushing as the status quo.  So I'm happy to see that outside forces will potentially change the way the abstractors are approaching this and cause those fees and charges to be represented differently on the invoices themselves, even if the bottom line remains the same (as it should).

I do understand perfectly clearly though that you guys want to include your labor costs as part of the provision of copies.  I do perceive that labor goes into producing these copies.  But I am telling you, this is a matter of semantics, and I think the semantics that you folks are choosing are intentionally unclear.