How to be a good friend – bail someone out of jail!

January 25th, 2010

If you’ve got a friend who was arrested and put in jail, whether rightly or wrongly, it is your duty to try and help them in any way you can. This could simply be in the form of moral support or setting your friend up with a good attorney, but if you really want to help then bailing them out would be the best thing you could do. Bailing someone out of jail is surprisingly easy, and isn’t anything how some people would have you believe it. The people in charge of bail bonds are extremely professional, deal with hundreds of thousands of dollars, and carry strong reputations in their industry, they aren’t just trying to make a quick buck.

If you can trust your friend completely not to skip out on his or her bail, then you really should have no hesitation about initiating the process. You’ll want to talk to a bail bondsman with specific knowledge of the way your area works (for example, a Fort Lauderdale bondsman), and who has years of experience under their belt. You’ll have to provide some information about the inmate, and yourself, in order for the process to truly get under way. Once the preliminary administration is carried out, the whole process can be very quick indeed. You’ll be asked to pay a 10% deposit (that’s 10% of the full bail amount) and also possible provide collateral. Collateral could be any type of asset that the Fort Lauderdale bondsman can sell at a later date to cover the costs of the bail, if your friend fails to fulfil the conditions specified by the court.

Once all that is done, it’s a simple case of waiting for the jail to release your friend. This can take a few hours, or a few minutes, it all depends on the jail and has nothing to do with the bondsman in charge of your case. If you follow instructions, you could be your friend’s new hero in a matter of hours.

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Bounty Hunting Tips

December 8th, 2009

If you’re thinking of becoming a bounty hunter, or you’ve been in the business for a little while, then you should know that there is never a point when you stop improving. You should always be looking for new techniques and ways to recover the fugitives you are looking for. Bounty hunting is almost an art form, and even the very best in the country recognise that there is always room for improvement. You should be talking to other bounty hunters about their techniques and the way they work, if you can find even the slightest little advantage, then you’ll be better off. Just remember that every 1% that you get better, you are exponentially smarter and more capable than the person your are trying to catch.

Building up a solid network of contacts is something that can take years to do, and often relies on experience and a good sense of community. However, you can speed the process along by taking a step back and looking at the people in your area. Is there anyone who pretty much everyone knows? Are there people who see everything that happens in the neighbourhood? If there are, you should be talking to them and building a relationship with them, these are the people are who going to make you money in the future, so be polite to them.

You should also be looking to get inside the mind of the person you are trying to catch. It’s not enough just to start wildly chasing them as soon as you get the job, you need to understand who the person is, what they are like, and where they are likely to go. You’d be surprised how stupid some criminals can be, and often they will go to the most obvious places, just because they lie slightly outside the area people normally think to look in. If you know your fugitive, you’ve got a massively increased chance of catching them. Bounty hunting is all about having an arsenal of techniques and strategies, and you need to be flexible to match the situation you are given.

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December 2nd, 2009

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Immigration Bail Bonds

October 8th, 2009

Being an immigrant is hard enough; you’re in a completely different environment to the one that you’re used to, you don’t understand the culture, and you haven’t got any friends to help you through it. These problems can be compounded if you are put in jail and have to battle against a legal system that you don’t understand in any way. If you’re sent to jail, you’ll probably want to post bail in order to get back to your family or just live with some freedom prior to your appearance in court. The process of being bailed out of jail is slightly different for immigrants, and requires an immigration bail bond.

An immigration bond is also a federal bond, and is different in some ways to standard state or county bail bonds. When a bond is posted for an immigrant, the details will go straight to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement who will take the money and look into the case further. It is also important to note that you’ll need to talk to a bail bond agency who is specifically licensed to work with immigration bail bonds; something which not all bail bond agencies are allowed to do.

Working with an immigration bail bond is fraught with difficulties for an agency, for example there may be a language barrier which breaks down communication. It could also be the case that very little personal information is available, and there could be identification problems. All of these issues, added on to the higher risk of bailing out an immigrant, mean that the deposit asked for by the agency is likely to be between and fifteen and twenty percent. The bond agency may also ask for collateral, but again because of the immigration circumstances, this may be hard to come by. Ultimately, immigration bail bonds are much more difficult to deal with than standard bail bonds, and as such take longer to process and have more risk involved. Working with a professional bail bond agency, with experience of immigration bail bonds, will help you hugely in this matter.

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Federal Bail Bonds

September 22nd, 2009

Federal bail bonds work differently to standard bail bonds; there are a few main differences and knowing them will help you if you are ever in a situation where you need to know them. Federal bail bonds are of a higher risk and generally of a higher price than standard bail bonds, therefore most bail bond agencies will ask for a higher deposit. This deposit will usually be around the region of 15%, slightly more than the 10% asked for when dealing with state or country bail bonds.

When dealing with a federal arrestee, you can use the Federal Inmate Lookup Service, which has details about the arrestee and their circumstances. This is a useful database but most bail bond agencies will also be able to use their own databases to find information about an arrestee. The co-signer of the bail bond will also usually have to attend a nebbia hearing when dealing with a federal bail bond. This is to ensure that sufficient collateral can be raised by the co-signer to cover the amount of the bond.

Dealing with federal bond cases will generally take a little longer than when dealing with county or state bail bonds; more details need to be gathered and, because of the higher risk, the bail bond agency will want to make sure they know exactly what they are dealing with. It is extremely risky unless all parties concerned can be absolutely sure that the defendant will appear in court when summoned, since federal cases are highly serious and potentially dangerous if the defendant cannot be found. This is why federal bail bonds are usually much higher than standard bail bonds, because the risk of the defendant not appearing in court when summoned is very high.

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Why Pretrial Release does not Work

August 9th, 2009

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Kids and legal troubles

July 22nd, 2009

All the people are egoistic. We all want to live good and not many of us care of others. But egoism can be different. And it is horrible when people become indifferent to their families and almost completely forget about them. Many problems can happen in this case. Unfortunately, people understand everything when it is already too late.

Children can spend a lot of time staying at home and having fun with their friends. In this case they will know nothing about real lives and dangers that are outside the house. And when an accident happens, who is to blame? Well, lawyers for injury claims will do their best to help but it is better to avoid this type of unpleasant situations. Talk to your kids and teach them what to do in different extreme situations. And try not to get Ontario speeding tickets yourself.

Kids should know a lot of things about law and different cases. They should understand how hard and expensive it is to have legal troubles. They should also know that there are assured pardons, professional lawyers, relatives that might help which means that there is always the way out. But make them understand that it is better not to brake the law and they will always be healthy and happy.

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New Nationwide Bail Bond Company - Hanks Bail Bonds

July 15th, 2009

How does a bail bond work?
The court system will set the amount of bail required for the defendant’s release. Under state law, a surety company can provide a type of insurance policy or “bond” that guarantees payment of the full bail amount to the court if the defendant does not show up for all scheduled appearances. These bonds are offered by licensed bail bond agencies. For supplying these bonds, bail agencies charge a premium - a percentage of the total bond amount, typically 10%. By way of example, for a bond amount set at $50,000, the premium would be about $5,000 plus any additional fees required by the state. The bail agency must charge the premium rate it has filed with the Department of Insurance and the premium is not refundable once the defendant is released.  See the rest of Hanks Bail Bonds

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Bail Process in Florida

May 19th, 2009

I think there is much misconception of what bail is, and what Florida Bail Bondsman do.  I get this question a lot, “well if the bail is $20,000.00 then why do you need collateral and the $2,000 premium?  I though is was one or the other.  Unfortunately this is not the case.  The 10% standard premium is the fee for the bail bondsman to post the full amount of the bond to the jail.  They do this either with a Power of Attorney or some professional bondsman use cash.  Either way, the jail has the full $20,000 bond at the jail.   The reason collateral may be needed is to secure the full amount of the bond, the $20,000 in the event the defendant skip bail and the bail bondsman has to pay the bond.  Some may be asking why even use a bail bondsman though.  Firstly, the jail doesn’t take 10%, they will require the full amount of the bail bond in cash.  County jails do not accept property or other items of value as security for the bond.  These are all the things that make using a bail bondsman convenient.  Talk to you bondsman, they will explain everything to you.

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Now Serving Florida and Nationwide Bail Bonds

May 1st, 2009

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