No, we don't.  It doesn't happen very often for us.  Most of the time we can tell if it is going to get rejected before we even take it to the courthouse.  Since it only happens occasionally, we just consider the trip a courtesy.  Most of the time, if we can't tell there was problem, the client probably didn't realize the problem either so I don't feel comfortably penalizing them. 

The exception would be if a client insisted that we rush a filing and we have to make a special trip to the county to accomodate them and it gets rejected.  In that case, I would let them know that since it is a special trip there would be a charge regardless of whether we could file it or not.

We have only had one client that really seemed to have a problem with their recordings - about half of them had to be returned to them at one time.  We thought about charging them extra for the rejects, but we get a decent amount of work from them.  Instead of changing our policy just for this client, we just kept working with them and they are getting better.

I can see where it would be appropriate to charge the trip fee if it is happening often and taking a lot of your time.  We just haven't had much of a problem with it.

Best,
Robert A. Franco
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