It’s never easy to lose your license in Traverse City or lose your license in Northern Michigan. If you’re frustrated by not having your Michigan driver’s license, our team of license restoration attorneys can help you take action to restore it. You might have lost your license because of a Grand Traverse drunk driving charge. You might have your license revoked by the State of Michigan because you accumulated too many points on your license. Maybe you refused to take the chemical test and the state suspended your license as a result.
Whatever the reason that you need to get your license back Northern Michigan, we’re the license restoration attorneys that can help you get there. When you’re working to get your license back, it’s easy to make mistakes. These mistakes can ruin your chances of success at your Secretary of State driver’s license appeal hearing.
That’s where we come in. We guide you through the process to make sure that your efforts to get your license back Grand Traverse or get your license back in Michigan are successful on the first try. We know what the Secretary of State license hearing officer wants to see and hear. When you understand the process, you can prepare your case in a way that brings success. Our team loves the feeling of opening the envelope from the Secretary of State to find that we’ve helped another client successfully restore their driving privileges in Michigan. We take each success personally.
If you’re sick of living without a license, contact us. We’re happy to talk with you about the case. With our years of experience, we can give you honest advice about your chances for success. If you decide to go forward, we can make sure that you present your case in a way that maximizes your chances to get your license back. We invite you to contact us today.
The sooner you contact us, the sooner we can start working on your case. We help clients at all stages of the license reinstatement process. Sometimes, we even help a client move past the Secretary of State hearing officer and onto the Circuit Court. We ask the circuit court to review the decision of the Secretary of State. Sometimes, you can get a driver’s license on the basis of hardship. The judge has many options. They can fully restore your license or they can give you a license with restrictions. Even if a restricted license isn’t ideal, you can still get to work and court-ordered treatment. The judge can restrict your license in several ways, and if you receive a restricted license it’s important to follow the terms of the restriction or you can find yourself charged with violation of restricted license. That’s a criminal offense and it can start your license suspension all over again.
When you file to get your driver’s license back, you go before the driver’s license appeal division of the Secretary of State. The Michigan Secretary of State has officials that do just driver’s license restoration hearings. They decide if it’s in the public’s interest for you to have a driver’s license. There are guidelines that determine if you’re eligible to ask for this kind of hearing. Usually, you can only ask once a year, so it’s very important that you work with an experienced license restoration attorney Grand Traverse in order to make sure that your driver’s license appeal is successful the first time.
Depending on the reason for the revocation, there might be a period of time before you can even apply to ask for the reinstatement. This period might be as short as one year and it might be as long as five years. It depends on what your conviction or convictions are for and the seriousness of the offense.
Secretary of State DLAD officers aren’t afraid to deny cases if they don’t see enough evidence in front of them that you should have your license back. It’s up to you to present your best case. That’s why you owe it to yourself to do your best job the first time you try. You can bring your license restoration hearing attorney with you to court. In fact, we go to court with all of our driver’s license clients. We believe this is a critical part of giving you great representation. We also spend significant time with you preparing for the hearing. You wouldn’t take any other test or exam without spending significant time preparing. You wouldn’t play in a sporting event without training. Just like that, it’s important to prepare for your license restoration hearing.
Our representation is critical to helping our clients succeed at their license hearing. We know how to ask the questions that the hearing officer wants answered. We know how to put you at ease during the hearing. Let us ask the right questions and create a winning strategy for you.
In the vast majority of cases, you need to get sober and stay sober if you’re going to win your driver’s license case. You need to be able to tell the hearing officer that you’ve been sober, usually for at least a year. We’ll send you to a substance abuse evaluator that will look at your case and speak with you. They’ll write a document that gives their opinion about your sobriety and your chances for recovery.
You can also use witnesses to make your case to the hearing officer. These family, friends, coworkers and employers can tell the hearing officer that you’re a hard working, productive member of society. They can tell the officer that you’ve made positive changes. They can tell the officer what you’ve done to address your substance abuse issues. In some cases, these witnesses testify in person. They can also write letters on your behalf. We work with all of our clients to make sure that they have effective witnesses to talk to the officer. They need to talk to the officer in ways that are helpful for the officer to understand you and the changes you’ve made that warrant giving you back your license to drive. We can help you decide what witnesses to use for your license restoration case.
Whether you’re facing a driver’s license case in Grand Traverse, Wexford, Leelanau, Kalkaska, Benzie or Antrim counties, the first thing to do is call us to talk about your case. We’re happy to answer your questions about whether you’re eligible to get your license back. Working through the process can take the pressure and stress off of you, and give you the assurance that you’re doing everything you can to restore your driver’s license. Help is only a phone call away. Call us today to talk to us about your case. Let’s get you back on the road.