What is the name of your state? Louisiana
A friend of mine called me tonight and asked my advice on something. Since I couldn't help her, I figured I'd see if anyone else here could.
This friend used to work for a lawyer near here, and although she quit several years ago, she is still good friends with this lawyer. Well, quite a few months ago, this lawyer called her and asked if she would agree to help him out by arranging "temporary bail" for one of his clients. (Now, it seems that she told me that this was evidently somewhat unethical of the lawyer to personally arrange his client's bail like this, but I may have misunderstood her there.) Anyway, she signed a property bond for this lawyer's client, with the lawyer handling all the paperwork (it was a $35,000.00 bail, and she signed his bail by putting up I think 16 acres of land as surety)....the lawyer insisted that at the most he would need her help with this bail would be a month, and that he would by that time have arranged bail through someone else.
Now, it is months later, and despite her having asked the lawyer several times, he hasn't taken care of the matter and keeps piling on excuses. The fellow who got out on bail is now working for the lawyer, doing all his dirty work (literally dirty work, like slopping hogs, shoveling sh%t, etc.), and the lawyer wants it to stay just that way for as long as possible, I am sure. Well, she is intent on taking care of this ASAP, as she is about to use the land for collateral on a loan, and is unable to do so with it being used as surety for this guy's bail. So, what she is intending to do is to bring the guy back to jail and revoke his bail. Obviously, it was a boneheaded move doing this in the first place, and I believe that she realizes that now...all she can really do now anyway is to try to mitigate this mistake by revoking the bail. Her lawyer "friend" is definitely NOT going to help her here, and I told her first off to not let on to him that she was intending to do or this guy would be in the wind immediately.
She told me that it was her intention to get a friend of hers to go with her to pick this guy up. Her friend is no bounty hunter....he is a repo man, and I guess that is as slose as she could get to a bounty hunter! What she needs to know is exactly what she needs to do, legally, to get this guy. What paperwork does she need, etc. Does she need to be there herself to satisfy some legal requirement, or does she need to specifically designate someone as her agent to pick the guy up?
I would really appreciate as detailed of info as someone can give me. Again, doing this in the first place was a boneheaded move, there was no excuse for it, and we realize that...what I mean here is that there is no need to reply saying how stupid this was, why she shouldn't have done it, etc. That's all a given. Any and all info that you could give on legally preparing for this pickup as well as executing it, as detailed as possible.
Thanks a bunch!!!!
A friend of mine called me tonight and asked my advice on something. Since I couldn't help her, I figured I'd see if anyone else here could.
This friend used to work for a lawyer near here, and although she quit several years ago, she is still good friends with this lawyer. Well, quite a few months ago, this lawyer called her and asked if she would agree to help him out by arranging "temporary bail" for one of his clients. (Now, it seems that she told me that this was evidently somewhat unethical of the lawyer to personally arrange his client's bail like this, but I may have misunderstood her there.) Anyway, she signed a property bond for this lawyer's client, with the lawyer handling all the paperwork (it was a $35,000.00 bail, and she signed his bail by putting up I think 16 acres of land as surety)....the lawyer insisted that at the most he would need her help with this bail would be a month, and that he would by that time have arranged bail through someone else.
Now, it is months later, and despite her having asked the lawyer several times, he hasn't taken care of the matter and keeps piling on excuses. The fellow who got out on bail is now working for the lawyer, doing all his dirty work (literally dirty work, like slopping hogs, shoveling sh%t, etc.), and the lawyer wants it to stay just that way for as long as possible, I am sure. Well, she is intent on taking care of this ASAP, as she is about to use the land for collateral on a loan, and is unable to do so with it being used as surety for this guy's bail. So, what she is intending to do is to bring the guy back to jail and revoke his bail. Obviously, it was a boneheaded move doing this in the first place, and I believe that she realizes that now...all she can really do now anyway is to try to mitigate this mistake by revoking the bail. Her lawyer "friend" is definitely NOT going to help her here, and I told her first off to not let on to him that she was intending to do or this guy would be in the wind immediately.
She told me that it was her intention to get a friend of hers to go with her to pick this guy up. Her friend is no bounty hunter....he is a repo man, and I guess that is as slose as she could get to a bounty hunter! What she needs to know is exactly what she needs to do, legally, to get this guy. What paperwork does she need, etc. Does she need to be there herself to satisfy some legal requirement, or does she need to specifically designate someone as her agent to pick the guy up?
I would really appreciate as detailed of info as someone can give me. Again, doing this in the first place was a boneheaded move, there was no excuse for it, and we realize that...what I mean here is that there is no need to reply saying how stupid this was, why she shouldn't have done it, etc. That's all a given. Any and all info that you could give on legally preparing for this pickup as well as executing it, as detailed as possible.
Thanks a bunch!!!!