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Arizona Small Claims Checker (2026)
Enter your claim amount to see whether it fits under the Arizona small claims limit ($5,000), with the filing fee and whether a lawyer is allowed at the hearing.
Arizona small claims checker
The dollar amount you would ask the court for: the deposit, the unpaid bill, the repair cost. Interest and court costs usually sit on top of the limit, not inside it.
Arizona raised the small-claims limit from $3,500 to $5,000 through SB 1022 (2025), effective September 26, 2025. This is the only increase among the fifteen states in 2025–2026; older pages still showing $3,500 are out of date.
Enter your claim amount above to see it compared against the Arizona figures.
Where and how to file is procedure this page does not walk through; the official self-help resource is Arizona Judicial Branch Self-Service. If your claim is a security deposit a landlord kept, the security deposit calculator shows the cap and the return deadline that apply to it.
- Your claim amount
- Not entered
- Arizona small claims limit
- $5,000
- Filing fee
- ~$26–$40+
- Lawyers at the hearing
- Not allowed at the hearing
Plain-language summary, not legal advice.
Informational only, not legal advice, and not a prediction that any claim would succeed. Limits change and some states carve out claim types this summary cannot weigh. See the full rule and the citations on the Arizona small claims reference, cited to A.R.S. §22-503 (limit); §22-512 (attorneys).
How the Arizona small claims limit works
Arizona's number changed recently, and a lot of sites haven't caught up. The small-claims limit in the justice-court small-claims division is now $5,000, not the $3,500 you'll still find quoted around the web. The increase came through SB 1022 in 2025 and took effect September 26, 2025; A.R.S. §22-503 now reads "does not exceed $5,000, exclusive of interest and costs," and we confirmed it verbatim on the legislature's site. Arizona's lawyer rule is unusual too: attorneys are barred from the small-claims division unless both parties agree in writing to allow them (§22-512). Fees aren't set by statute. Each justice court sets its own, so expect roughly $26–$40 or more depending on the county.
This checker compares your number to the Arizona ceiling; it is informational only and not legal advice, and it says nothing about whether a claim would succeed. For where to file and what the hearing looks like, use the official self-help resource linked in the result. The full rule and the citations are on the Arizona small claims reference.
Small claims checkers for other states
Same tool, each with its own ceiling and fee.