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Indiana Small Claims Checker (2026)
Enter your claim amount to see whether it fits under the Indiana small claims limit ($10,000), with the filing fee and whether a lawyer is allowed at the hearing.
Indiana 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.
Enter your claim amount above to see it compared against the Indiana figures.
Where and how to file is procedure this page does not walk through; the official self-help resource is Indiana Judicial Branch small claims manual. 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
- Indiana small claims limit
- $10,000
- Filing fee
- ~$35–$100
- Lawyers at the hearing
- Allowed
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 Indiana small claims reference, cited to Ind. Code §33-29-2-4 (statewide); §33-28-3-4 (circuit court docket); §33-34-3-2 (Marion County).
How the Indiana small claims limit works
Indiana's small-claims cap is $10,000 in most of the state, set in the small claims docket of the circuit and superior courts under IC 33-29-2-4. The statute text says the docket has jurisdiction where the amount sought is "not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000)." Indiana has a genuine local wrinkle: Marion County (Indianapolis) does not use that structure. It runs nine separate township small claims courts under IC 33-34, each with its own elected judge, and their limit is $8,000, not $10,000, in effect since July 1, 2015. So the accurate statewide answer is $10,000, with the caveat that a case filed in a Marion County township court tops out at $8,000. Filing fees are set county by county and vary widely, roughly $35 to $100 once service is included. Individuals may bring a lawyer or go it alone; businesses face a representation rule tied to the $1,500 mark. We could not open the official .gov statute pages verbatim during this review, so the page is flagged as draft while the figures are corroborated across the statute text and Indiana court materials.
This checker compares your number to the Indiana 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 Indiana small claims reference.
Small claims checkers for other states
Same tool, each with its own ceiling and fee.