Sunday, 1 May 2016

How Do Bail Bonds Piscataway Work

By Paul Schmidt


Normally you hear about people being arrested for certain crimes and they are then released even before being charged in court on surety pending their appearance in court later on. If you do not understand well what happens then you will be in the dark over what exactly takes place. Below is an overview of how the bail bonds Piscataway works.

Whenever you are arrested by law enforcement officers on suspicion of committing a crime, you are taken to jail for booking purposes. The booking process involves your mug shot being taken, fingerprinted and a statement would be required from you. Before you are taken to court, you can either be held in jail or get released on a surety.

The bail payment refers to a form of financial agreement that you as the criminal defendant enter into with an agency involved in bails and bonds. The agency will be acting on your behalf and enters into an arrangement with the court for you to be released as your trial happens in exchange of money or some form of collateral that may include assets, cash or bond. The court normally comes up with the value as well as terms of the security.

The security agency then assumes the responsibility of ensuring that the defendant attends court for their trial on the trial date. If the defendant does not honor the court with his appearance, then the agency can hire a someone to track the defendant down. Bounty hunting is still allowed in the United States.

Bond can be described as the surety your agency gives to show its commitment to paying the full security amount. There are certain courts however, that do not accept anything below the full bond or some a ten percent of the total security amount in cash. This is usually determined by the surety terms issued by the trial court.

There is a bail bondsman, attached to the agency that bailed you out when they put out some cash to get you released for a fee. Their fee is set at around ten percent of the whole total amount that is supposed to cover the full surety amount. The money you pay them first is non-refundable and it remains so even if your case will be thrown out.

This bondsman may also take out security against your assets to make sure that they cover the amount they put out for your security. If your assets cannot cover this amount, the bondsman will take security against assets of your friends and family who may be willing to assist you. After the security is taken out, there is a ten percent payment in cash that is to be done.

When the criminal defendant who is out on bond abscond court, the bondsman is free to sue them for their monies they deposited in court in addition to hiring a bounty hunter. The assets of the defendant can be claimed to recover his unpaid money. He could also claim the assets of the people assisting the defendant.




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