The Finer Points Of Bail Bonds Chula Vista

By Cynthia Long


Human beings are social creatures. This means that they often live within communities of at least a few other members of their species. Now, within these communities, they often form mores and standards. Now, not everyone is going to be able to abide by those mores and standards. Which is less than fortunate for them. Behavior that is deemed deviant from the norm tends to be punished. This can be as little as displeasure, or it can be as drastic as legal repercussions. In the case of the latter, they can get a taste of freedom with the help of bail bonds Chula Vista.

The first thing that needs to be done is to explain just what exactly bail is. In short, it is money. Judge sets an amount, and then the defendant pays that amount and then they get to go home. This is not the same as a fine, because that freedom is temporary, and funds are to be returned to the relevant parties once the trial has concluded.

Now, a bail bond is a type of surety. They are given out bondsmen. See, sometimes the amount set by a judge can be too high for some defendants to pay. So they turn to an outside lending agency in order to generate the funds needed to secure their release.

Bondsmen are lending agencies. In that sense, they are similar to banks. Except that banks generally will not come within a ten foot radius of legal proceedings. So there have to be agencies that specialize in helping those accused of crime secure a limited measure of freedom.

It is necessary. Not everyone can survive in police custody, and they should not have to be. But they should also be able to return to court. Which is why bail is there, because the money paid is generally returned at the conclusion of the trial, but it is surrendered if the defendant does not show up to court.

Now, if the defendant decides not to risk their freedom in a court case, there are legal avenues for a bondsman to get their money back. They can send agents of their own to track down the defendant and then bring them back to stand trial. Failing that, they can simply put a bounty on their heads.

Mankind likes to collect information, the evidence for this can be seen in paintings scrawled on the walls of caves. It just so happens that the greatest repository of that information is the internet, which is something almost everyone is going to have access to. It is going to have everything on it, from the time man first learned how to manipulate fire to the locations of pretty much every business in the world.

But money is going to be a factor. That is the thing about a bond. It is an investment. When bail is paid, it is generally returned when the accused returns to court. For example, if a twenty thousand dollar bond is loaned out, then not only is the original twenty thousand returned, the client has to pay an additional percentage, usually about ten to fifteen, to the agency which they borrowed from in the first place.

The world is not made for humanity. But humanity was made for the world. So they had to go ahead and remake it into something more palatable to their collective tastes.




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