How Serious is a Suspended License?

If you live in the Los Angeles area, your driver’s license is probably an extremely important part of your everyday life. You need it if you want to drive in order to work, pick up your kids, transport things you need like food, and see your friends. Life on public transit in L.A. is not a pleasant experience, so if you have a car and have made some mistakes that prevent you from driving it, it’s definitely in your best interest to get your driving privileges reinstated.

There’s no one solution that works in all instances when it comes to getting your license back because there are many reasons your CA driver’s license could be suspended that require their own specific remedy, including:

Failure to appear (FTA) in court after receiving a traffic ticket
Failure to pay a fine resulting from a FTA
Not having proof of car insurance
Failing to pay required child support payments
Being caught driving when you are physically/mentally unfit to do so, such as while intoxicated

As you can see, each of these scenarios are very different and it will take different steps to resolve each one. As a general rule, FTA suspensions require a court appearance, failure to pay suspensions require payment of the fine or obligation, and so on. For a license suspended due to too many points accumulating on it for moving violations, there are levels of different penalties and how easy or difficult it is to get your license back will be related to the warning level you reached to lose your license. Driver’s license suspensions for other more serious offenses, like a DUI or reckless driving, will take a lot more to undo, and often involve fines and a non-negotiable suspension period before you can even take the measures to start earning back your driving privileges. Whatever the case, you’re not going to be able to do it without a lawyer.

During a suspension period, you can apply for a restricted license that will allow you to drive to and from work and any court-ordered appointments only. The DMV also sometimes requires court hearings to determine what must be done to reinstate your license, and reprtesentation by a traffic lawyer can make all the difference in what kind of ruling that hearing produces.

If you need assistance in getting back your suspended driver’s license, contact Ticket Cleaners now for a free consultation.