Return of Arbitration Fee if Respondent Does Not Pay?

[ndinks]

What happens to the arbitration fee paid by the Arbitration Plaintiff if the Arbitration Respondent fails to file his or her portion of the fee? I have seen sone responses to questions about the arbitration process that the fee would be returned to the Arbitration Plaintiff, but I don’t see that anywhere in the text of the Fixed-Price Escrow Instructions.

[kat303]

Nathan - If the dispute process esclates to arbitration and either the client or freelancer fails to respond/pay the arbitration fee, then the other party (who did pay the fee) will get that fee back plus all of the funds in escrow. 

[ndinks]

Thank you. Is that stated somewhere in the actual Fixed-Price Escrow Instructions that I’m missing (or some other document)? Or is it just something that’s inferred based on the fact that the arbitration never took place under such a scenario?