| When you are arrested, you are taken to jail and | | | | contract with the bail bondsman to appear on their trial |
| booked into a holding cell to wait for a judge to see | | | | date. If they attempt to leave town or run away from |
| you. When you are ready to go to your hearing, you | | | | the bail bondsman, the bondsman has a legal right to |
| need an Austin jail release lawyer who can help you | | | | track them down and bring them back with the use of |
| to find the cheapest way possible to get out of jail. | | | | a bounty hunter. The act of leaving town and not |
| The judge will set a bail amount will most likely set a | | | | showing up at their court date is called jumping bail. |
| bail amount that you can afford which means you will | | | | Because all of these facts are stated in the contract, |
| have to get a bail bondsman to come and loan you | | | | legally there is nothing that the offender can do to stop |
| the money to get you out of jail. | | | | the bounty hunter. The person signed the contract so |
| When the bail bondsman loans you the money, they | | | | they are lawfully expected to hold up their end of the |
| will require certain restrictions before they will just give | | | | contract. |
| you a large check. They will usually require that you | | | | The bounty hunter works for the bondsman, and |
| sign an affidavit stating that you will come back to | | | | therefore is paid by the bondsman. Every bounty |
| your assigned court date to see the judge. This is | | | | hunter receives a certain percentage of the amount of |
| where the bounty hunting comes into play. | | | | bail you have to pay back to the bondsman. There are |
| A Bounty Hunter is a person who is hired by a bail | | | | still some states in the US that have laws prohibiting |
| bondsman to make sure that a certain person comes | | | | bounty hunting. Other states just have requirements as |
| to their trial date. Legally bounty hunters are allowed to | | | | to what the bounty hunter needs to have done before |
| use their sweeping rights to recover the person who | | | | they can become a bounty hunter. In California, all |
| may have run away. A bail bondsman has used their | | | | bounty hunters must have a clean background check |
| own money to pay the bail for someone to get out of | | | | before they can become one. |
| jail. The person who got out of jail has a legally binding | | | | |