Bench Warrant For Not Paying Fines

I have not been good about paying the fine payements as the court scheduled them for me and the fine went into default.

Bench warrant for not paying fines. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. Understand that this is not what the cour has to do. If the warrant was for your arrest and you paid the fine the warrant should be recalled.

A court issues a bench warrant if you fail to obey a court order like the order to attend a hearing pay fines or appear for jury duty. And unfortunately all too often an unrepresented defendant who is having difficulty paying bills in the first place will fail to request the court to reduce or eliminate a fine. If the warrant was for failure to appear in court when you were supposed to you will have to appear in court and tell the judge why you didn t appear.

A bench warrant is generally issued because a person failed to appear in court violated probation failed to pay a court ordered fine or failed to complete community service or pay child support. A bench warrant never goes away so the sooner you address and deal with it the better off you are. The defendant will accept the fine and hope for the best.

Later when the defendant fails to pay a bench warrant is issued. He probably will recall the warrant. An arrest warrant is typically issued if the police have demonstrated to a judge that they have enough evidence to arrest a person for criminal activity.

This can be as simple as paying off a traffic ticket fine. You will still probably have to appear and be arraigned on the warrant in order to get it resolved. In my experience if someone appears in court with the money to pay the fines the judge will allow the money to be paid and cancel the bench warrant without any additional fines or penalties.

However it will just not automatically go away simply because you pay the money. Now by logging into the court s online database i can see a bench warrant was issued for 10 000 by the court because i didnt comply with the terms of my probation paying the fine.