What Happens To Bail Money If Charges Are Dropped?
If your charges are dropped and you paid a bail bonds service to bail you out, you get no refund, as the bail bondsman put the full amount of bail up on your behalf. 10% is the bail bondsman service fee.
If you paid the court directly for the full bail amount, the bail money will be refunded to you once the case is dismissed.
If a person is arrested for a crime he are she didn’t commit in the first place in he are she goes to court and is found not guilty the person should get there bond $ refunded regardless because they should have never been arrested are had to pay a bond in the first place…….
If they had a court date and used a bondsman to front the money for them, they would get nothing back, since the 10% fee to the bondsman was so the bondsman could front the entire bond to the court. It is a service fee. However, if the bond was paid directly through the court and did not use a bondsman, then that person should get the full amount of their bonds returned, minus some small court fees.
How is that fair. So the bondsman get his money back and gets to keep the money of the falsely accused person. That a racket
Out of a 5000 that had to be paid ,to get my grandson out and wait on court ,I paid 2000 down , making monthly payment to the bonesma .The grandson case was dismissed never went to court ,,I owe 800 left out of the 5000 .do I finish paying the bonds man the balance left .
Bondsman are their own private entity, so it’s possible to try and negotiate a settlement from the company or owner/agent but it’s not likely to happen. Almost always, the service fee you paid to the bondsman for posting the full bail amount on your behalf is a non-refundable amount and in the fine print, you may have given them permission to hunt you down for collecting the payment, including things like going across state lines, contacting your family, friends and even your job in order to collect that remainder. Just depends on the bondsman.
Ok but do the courts then pay bondsman back?
Yes, the money the bondsman put up on the defendant’s behalf is refunded to the bondsman as long as the defendant makes their court appearance, usually within 15-45 days, depending on the state and current processing times.
I was wrongfully arrested and it was later proven that I didn’t break any laws at all, shouldn’t the county who arrested me have to pay me back my bail money on top of money I spent while I was incarcerated , and loss of freedom….all because a detective did not do his job to start with?
I went to the court date and my name wasn’t on roster that I had court because they said that the charges were dropped or the case was rejected so do I still have to continue to pay the bill bonds ??
Bail bonds agencies are not government organizations, they are independent private companies that offer the service of putting up the full amount of bail to the court on your behalf. They are taking a big risk on your behalf, and the 10% is a service fee for taking that risk. In the contract you signed, you probably agreed to a no-refund policy. They made it possible for you to get out of jail before your court date.
For this one, you will have to talk to the bondsman.
My case was recently dropped and I used a bonds man so does he get to keep my money or is it refunded to me? I payed 10 percent of a thousand dollars.
The 10% fee is a service fee for posting a bond in the first place. It takes time and resources and human labor to process a bond on someone’s behalf, so even though it got dropped, the bondsman still spent that time and resource on you. So the fee is kept with the bondsman. You do not get it back. They took a risk on your behalf; the case could have gone the other way too, or your friend could have skipped court and be on the run, and the bondsman is then out $1,000 that they put up to the court for you. Hopefully, this helps explain why the bond is non-refundable.
The fee is a service fee to the bondsman for putting up the $1,000 to the court for you and is non-refundable.
The 10% fee is a service fee for posting a bond in the first place. It takes time and resources and human labor to process a bond on someone’s behalf, so even though it got dropped, the bondsman still spent that time and resource on you. So the fee is kept with the bondsman. You do not get it back.
What if your cases was adjudicated and you still owe the bondsman Money do you have to still pay him even though the case are done
Yes, the bondsman fee was a service fee for taking the initial risk and putting bail up for you in the first place, so you didn’t have to. That fee is almost always non refundable, but since bond companies are privately owned, it is ‘possible’ to talk to them and try to renegotiate a new contract or agreement, though not likely.
My husband bail was 10,000 so I put 1,000 the payments was $200 so I have gave him $1700 altogether so I trying to give him 4,000 to squash it he going to say no I want 15,000 I said I’m not paying that so I’m taking this back to court because I never went to court.
So my case was dismissed and one of my cases was dropped to a misdemeanor do I still pay bailsbond
Bondsman services fees are usually non-refundable. They put up the full amount of the bail bond to the court for you, and you only had to pay them 10% or so in return. Bondsman don’t have anything to do with charges or guilty or not guilty; it’s about a contract agreement to offer a trade; they put up the full bond amount to the court for you, and they accept 10% of that amount as a fee.
I pay bails Bondman but I couldn’t bond out because of a parol hold got transfer to another state do I still owe the Bondman
Yes I know my case stretched out over 3 years the first bond company revoked my bond said I didn’t check in which my phone records show I did they kept my 3000 2nd bonding company kept my other 3000 for charges that got dismissed and expunged Texas
I agree with you 100%!!! We got arrested, then the charges were dropped! Our bail’s bond man made us pay $7800.00!!! I don’t understand why we didn’t get it back!!!