Blog

Five Ways to Keep Your Loved One from Jumping Bail

    You just posted bond to have your loved one bailed out of jail. It was your money; part of your retirement, your emergency money, money you didn’t want to spend—except love won out. Your money was a nonrefundable fee for the bond. You may have also put up significant collateral, like your house, to guarantee […]
    Read More

    Top 5 Questionable Bail Standards

      Did you ever wonder why bail was as expensive as it is? Aren’t some of the laws (and the subsequent bail) a little ridiculous? Bail is meant to keep the defendant either in jail or in town until trail. The 2013 California uniform bail schedule reveals a few interesting facts. Some of the bail prices […]
      Read More

      Ten Steps Before you Make Bail

        Crime shows have always been popular entertainment. Even the old Andy Griffith Show had a theme centered on the hometown sheriff and his jail. Now we have CSI Miami, Las Vegas, and New York and multiple other crime-investigation/ courtroom dramas that are on every night of the week. Every now and again, the topic of […]
        Read More

        Bail Bond Agents in California: Not-Secret Agents

          The morphing of the English language to be less gender specific somehow hasn’t changed the word bondsman to bondsperson in common vernacular. Consequently, to be politically correct you might want to refer to a bondsperson by their proper title, “Bail Bond Agent.” An Agent of What? A bail bond agent isn’t James Bond; it’s not […]
          Read More

          Why You Don’t Want to Spend a Week in Jail

            Overworked individuals, type-A personalities, and even workaholics often express that a week in jail would be a welcome reprieve from their daily stress. Those fortunate few, who actually get their wish, invariably change their minds within a few minutes. If you happen to be one of those who feel this way, let me give you […]
            Read More

            End of content

            No more pages to load