Advance payment of costs and fees

§ 15–704. Advance payment of costs and fees (a) Costs and fees for services rendered by the clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the Register of Wills and chargeable to others than the United States or the District of Columbia are payable in advance and shall be collected pursuant to such rules and regulations, not incompatible with law, as are prescribed by the court. (b) Section 15–706 does not prohibit the court from directing, by rule or standing order, the collection, at the time the services are rendered, of the fees enumerated in that section from either party, but all such fees shall be taxed as costs in the respective cases.