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Utah Small Claims Checker (2026)
Enter your claim amount to see whether it fits under the Utah small claims limit ($20,000), with the filing fee and whether a lawyer is allowed at the hearing.
Utah 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.
Utah is the only state with a scheduled escalator. The limit is $20,000 from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2029, then $25,000 starting January 1, 2030. It was $15,000 before 2025, so older pages quoting $15,000 or $11,000 are out of date.
Enter your claim amount above to see it compared against the Utah figures.
Where and how to file is procedure this page does not walk through; the official self-help resource is Utah Courts self-help: Small Claims. 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
- Utah small claims limit
- $20,000
- Filing fee
- $60–$185
- 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 Utah small claims reference, cited to Utah Code §78A-8-102 (limit); §78A-2-301 (fees).
How the Utah small claims limit works
Utah has the highest small-claims ceiling in the country, and it is set to climb again. The limit is $20,000 right now, confirmed on the state courts' own self-help page, which states plainly that "the most you can ask for is $20,000." What makes Utah unusual is the escalator written into Utah Code §78A-8-102: the cap was $15,000 through the end of 2024, sits at $20,000 for 2025 through 2029, and jumps to $25,000 on January 1, 2030, with no further legislation required. That $20,000 figure counts attorney fees but leaves out court costs and interest. Lawyers are allowed on either side, though most people handle these cases themselves. The filing fee scales with your claim: $60 up to $2,000, $100 up to $7,500, and $185 above that.
This checker compares your number to the Utah 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 Utah small claims reference.
Small claims checkers for other states
Same tool, each with its own ceiling and fee.