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When you’re first exploring the world of bail bonds in Ventura, you’re probably not exactly in the best place mentally and emotionally. Looking into bail bonds means that someone you love is in jail waiting for a court date, and that means a lot of stress on you to get them out. Furthermore, it means the bail amount is more than you can afford to put up, or else you’d just pay in cash instead of getting a bail bond.
Here are a few terms that you should know by heart before you start talking in detail to a Los Angeles bail bondsman about getting your loved one out of jail:
Bail: You might think you know what bail means — it’s the amount of money someone has to put up to get out of jail. What some people don’t realize is that paying your bail doesn’t get you off the hook — you still have to show up for your court date, and if you’re convicted, you still have to serve out your term in jail.
Bail amounts are put up by a family as a form of insurance — it says to the court “the defendant will be at his court date(s), or we will give you this money”. If the defendant does in fact show up conscientiously, you get the money back.
Bail Bonds: A bail bond is an agreement between your family and a bail bondsman. If a loved one has been granted bail but you can’t afford to pay the whole amount, you can give 10% of the full amount to a bail bondsman and he will turn around and put up the entire amount of bail to the courts. You don’t ever get that 10% back, but you do get out of paying the other 90%.
Bail Bondsman: Bail bondsmen are licensed by the State to deal with families who can’t pay the full bail amount. They have a variety of special rights relating to making sure that the defendant makes it to their court dates, up to and including hiring bounty hunters to seek them out and bring them back by any means necessary.
Indemnitor: That’s you! The Indemnitor is the person who pays the 10% down on the bail bond. If the defendant jumps bail, the Indemnitor becomes immediately responsible for paying the other 90% of the bail amount — so you have good reason to make sure that they go to court as well!