How to calculate and pay the court fee for a civil appeal

When this applies

This guide is for an in­di­vid­ual filing an appeal against a judg­ment in an or­di­nary civil prop­er­ty case in 2026. If the fee is cal­cu­lat­ed on the entire claim value even though only part is being ap­pealed, the payment may be too high. If the rate is too low or proof of payment is in­ad­e­quate, the court will address the de­fi­cien­cies in the appeal.

First, dis­tin­guish the scope of this guide from the broader appeal process. It covers cal­cu­lat­ing and paying the fee, not prepar­ing the appeal ar­gu­ments. For filing steps and pro­ce­dur­al dead­lines, see the guide to filing a civil appeal and the appeal dead­line cal­cu­la­tor.

In a dispute over payment under a con­tract heard by a dis­trict court in Lviv Region, the judg­ment may cover prin­ci­pal debt and ad­di­tion­al claims. Before paying for an appeal, isolate the dis­put­ed amount and check whether the orig­i­nal rate in­clud­ed only that amount. A payment made to the first-in­stance court does not es­tab­lish the details for a new appeal.

What deadline or procedure applies

Article 4 of the Law of Ukraine “On Court Fee” sets the fee for an appeal against a judg­ment at 150% of the rate payable when the orig­i­nal claim was filed, within the dis­put­ed amount. The phrase “payable” matters: a receipt shows the amount ac­tu­al­ly paid, which may have been lower because of an ex­emp­tion or filing method, or may have covered the whole dispute rather than only the ap­pealed part.

If the orig­i­nal claim was filed earlier, use the year of the orig­i­nal filing when de­ter­min­ing the base rate. Do not au­to­mat­i­cal­ly apply the 2026 sub­sis­tence minimum to a rate from an earlier year. An example of ap­ply­ing a his­tor­i­cal base appears in the Unified State Reg­is­ter of Court De­ci­sions, but you should check your in­di­vid­ual cal­cu­la­tion against the law and the case file.

For an in­di­vid­ual or sole pro­pri­etor ap­peal­ing a judg­ment in an or­di­nary prop­er­ty claim in 2026, the cap is UAH 26,624. This equals eight sub­sis­tence min­i­mums for able-bodied persons as of 1 January 2026: 8 × UAH 3,328. The of­fi­cial ju­di­cia­ry table con­firms this cap. Dif­fer­ent caps apply to special cat­e­gories of rights; they are outside this guide.

For a prop­er­ly filed elec­tron­ic appeal, apply the co­ef­fi­cient 0.8 to the pre­scribed rate. The formula for this limited case is:

fee = min(base rate for the disputed amount × 1.5; UAH 26,624) × (0.8 for an electronic appeal or 1 for a paper appeal).

The civil appeal court fee cal­cu­la­tor rounds to the nearest kopeck after mul­ti­ply­ing by 1.5 and again after ap­ply­ing the 0.8 co­ef­fi­cient, using the “half up” rule. This is a tech­ni­cal rule for a re­pro­ducible cal­cu­la­tion; check the amount against your case doc­u­ments before paying.

How to proceed step by step

Con­sid­er a con­tract dispute heard by a dis­trict court in Lviv Region. An in­di­vid­ual is ap­peal­ing part of a mon­e­tary judg­ment for which the ver­i­fied orig­i­nal-claim rate was UAH 8,000. The appeal is planned for paper filing in 2026.

1. Confirm that UAH 8,000 is the orig­i­nal-claim rate for the dis­put­ed part, not the total payment for the whole case.
2. Cal­cu­late UAH 8,000 × 1.5 = UAH 12,000.
3. The UAH 26,624 cap does not change the UAH 12,000 result.
4. For a paper appeal, the ap­prox­i­mate payment is UAH 12,000. If the same appeal were prop­er­ly filed elec­tron­i­cal­ly, the amount after ap­ply­ing 0.8 would be UAH 9,600.
5. Check for an ex­emp­tion, iden­ti­fy the proper ap­pel­late court, and verify its payment details. For a case as­signed to the Lviv Court of Appeal, check its of­fi­cial court fee page. If another ap­pel­late court has ju­ris­dic­tion, find its page through the Ju­di­cia­ry of Ukraine portal and confirm the details before trans­fer­ring funds. Do not use an account number from this guide; it may change.
6. Keep the proof of payment and attach it to the appeal in a way that matches the filing method.

In another dispute, the base rate might be UAH 20,000: then 150% = UAH 30,000, so the UAH 26,624 cap applies. After the 0.8 co­ef­fi­cient for elec­tron­ic filing, the amount is UAH 21,299.20. This example does not apply to cat­e­gories with a special lower cap.

What to check before filing

Iden­ti­fy exactly what is being ap­pealed: the entire judg­ment, a par­tic­u­lar amount, or several in­de­pen­dent claims. For a partial appeal, the law focuses on the dis­put­ed amount; me­chan­i­cal­ly taking a pro­por­tion of an old receipt is not always correct. If prop­er­ty and non-prop­er­ty claims are com­bined, this sim­pli­fied formula does not apply.

Also review Article 5 of the Law “On Court Fee”: certain people and case cat­e­gories may qualify for ex­emp­tions. The law also allows a party, on spec­i­fied grounds, to ask the court to reduce, defer, or split the fee into in­stal­ments. This re­quires sep­a­rate sup­port­ing doc­u­ments and does not arise au­to­mat­i­cal­ly from using a cal­cu­la­tor.

Do not use this guide for an appeal against a pro­ce­dur­al ruling, an appeal con­cern­ing a court payment order, an ad­min­is­tra­tive or com­mer­cial case, or a dispute about social, em­ploy­ment, family, or housing rights, per­son­al injury, moral damage, or di­vi­sion of prop­er­ty on divorce. The ap­plic­a­ble rate or cap may differ. If you need to re­con­struct the base for the orig­i­nal prop­er­ty claim, compare it with the claim fee cal­cu­la­tor, keeping in mind that it is de­signed for a 2026 claim.

When to consult a lawyer

Legal review is es­pe­cial­ly useful when a judg­ment con­cerns several claims, only part of an amount is dis­put­ed, pro­ce­dur­al doc­u­ments were filed in dif­fer­ent years, or an ex­emp­tion is un­cer­tain. The error most often happens before mul­ti­ply­ing by 150%—when de­ter­min­ing the base.

For a case from Lviv or Lviv Region, a lawyer can bring the orig­i­nal claim, judg­ment, and ap­pealed portion of the claims into one cal­cu­la­tion. Before paying, also check the year for the base rate, the proper ap­pel­late court, and proof of payment; verify the appeal filing dead­line sep­a­rate­ly.