3. Make sure your bail conditions work with other court orders
Question & Answer
What are bail conditions?If you aren't sure whether your conditions make it difficult to follow conditions in another , ask your lawyer or for advice.
For example, you may have already signed a release document in another case that says you must live at a specific address. You may be asked later to sign a new release document that requires you to live at a different address. This is a conflict because both release documents are active and require you to live at two different places.
In some situations, you may decide to follow the bail conditions even if they conflict with another court order you have. For example, your bail release document may require you to agree to stay away from your ex-partner's home, but you may have a through family court that allows you to pick up your children from your ex-partner's home. If you agree to the bail conditions, you must not go to your ex-partner's home, even though the family court order allows it.
You must be careful to not do anything that would put you in breach of your release conditions or the other court order. Later, you could ask to have your bail conditions changed.
If you do not follow your bail conditions, you can be and charged with failing to comply with your bail. This is a criminal . If this happens, you will be held in for another . It will be more difficult for you to get bail a second time.
