FAQ
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If your question is about your own citation rather than the service in general, the assessment will answer it more precisely than this page can.
What you need before you begin, and what happens when you do.
A photo of your citation. If there is writing on the back — officer notes, court instructions — photograph that too.
You do not need an account to begin. Identity is required later, at the point where the product genuinely needs it, and what you have already entered travels with you across that step rather than being lost.
No. The assessment begins from the citation itself. You create an account at the point where the matter needs an owner — around the quote and hiring step — and your in-progress work carries over.
No. You send the citation, we assess the matter, and you receive a quote. Nothing is charged before you accept that quote.
Reading a citation is genuinely difficult, and we do not present a poor reading as fact. Fields we could not read reliably are marked as such and you enter them yourself rather than us guessing.
If the document cannot be read at all, you are told that plainly and given the option to enter the details manually.
How representation is priced, and what a quote actually tells you.
Representation is quoted per matter rather than published as a flat rate, because the work differs — the court, the charge as written, the severity, and the case context all change what is involved.
You receive a quote for your specific citation, stating its amount with its currency and what representation covers, before you commit to anything.
A published flat price is either high enough to cover the hardest matter — in which case straightforward matters subsidise it — or low enough that difficult matters get declined or handled thinly. Quoting per matter avoids both.
The pricing page explains in full what goes into a quote.
After you accept a quote. The assessment and the quote both come first, and declining is a normal outcome that costs nothing.
Refund terms are part of the engagement rather than marketing copy, so they are stated in the terms and on the quote you receive — the places where they are actually binding — rather than summarised on a page that cannot be held to them.
Read the terms before you accept a quote. If something in them is unclear, ask us before you commit.
A quote is for legal representation. Any fine, court cost or fee that the court itself imposes is separate and is paid to the court, not to FineFight. The quote states its own scope explicitly so this is not left ambiguous.
What representation can and cannot do — answered directly.
No. Nobody can honestly guarantee that, and any service that does is telling you something it cannot know. A court decides the matter.
What an attorney can do is represent the matter properly. What we can do is make sure the matter is accurately understood, correctly routed to someone licensed in the right jurisdiction, and transparently tracked.
We do not publish one. A percentage without the case mix behind it tells you nothing useful about your own citation — a service handling mostly minor equipment violations and one handling contested commercial charges would produce very different figures for reasons that have nothing to do with quality.
That depends on the court's calendar and on the matter itself, neither of which is ours to promise. We do not publish a timeline, because a number here would be a guess presented as a commitment.
What you do get is visibility: court dates, filings, appearances and requests appear on your case as they happen.
Paying a citation is generally an admission. Depending on the state and the charge, that can mean points on your licence, an insurance consequence that outlasts the fine, and a record that follows you.
Whether contesting is worthwhile in your case depends on your specific charge, your record and what is at stake. That is what the assessment addresses — for your citation rather than in general.
Who represents you, how they are chosen, and what that relationship is.
A licensed attorney who practises in the jurisdiction that issued your citation. FineFight is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.
Attorneys in the network are independent practitioners. The professional obligations that attach to representing you are the attorney’s own. When representation is formed, and with whom, is set out in the terms you acknowledge at checkout.
Your matter is offered to attorneys licensed in the issuing jurisdiction. They review the specifics and choose whether to accept it — nothing is auto-assigned to whoever happens to be available.
Once an attorney accepts, you see who they are.
No. Software reads your citation and helps route the matter accurately. A licensed human attorney represents you.
We are explicit about this because the distinction matters legally, not just as positioning.
Yes. Once an attorney is assigned, they are the person handling your matter and you can see who they are. Case communication runs through your case rather than disappearing into an inbox.
Appearances, dates, and what happens if a deadline has passed.
It depends on the jurisdiction and the matter. Some appearances can be handled by the attorney on your behalf; others require you to be present.
Your assessment addresses this for your specific citation rather than in the abstract, and any date that requires you is shown on your case in the court's own time zone with your local equivalent labelled separately.
Tell us anyway. A passed deadline changes what the options are — it can add a failure-to-appear dimension to the matter — and it is handled as its own path rather than treated as a form error.
Do not assume it is too late to ask.
Continuances and rescheduling are normal in traffic matters. When a date moves, the change appears on your case with the new date, rather than you finding out by checking the court's website.
Case activity is posted as it happens — filings, appearances, requests, date changes and the eventual outcome. We are not going to promise you a fixed contact schedule, because a scheduled message saying nothing has changed is not an update.
If your attorney needs something from you, it arrives as a specific request with a deadline attached.
Which matters and which places, and what happens when the answer is no.
The coverage page lists jurisdictions and how far the network reaches into each, and lets you filter by the state that issued your citation.
Coverage of a state is not the same as your specific citation being supportable. The assessment settles that on your actual matter.
You are told directly, with a next step. An unsupported matter is a real outcome rather than an error message, and nothing is charged for reaching it.
No. Impaired-driving charges are a different area of practice with substantially different exposure, and you should speak with a criminal defence attorney directly rather than through this service.
Yes, materially. A citation that is minor on a personal licence can threaten a livelihood on a CDL, and the matter is assessed with that exposure in mind. Tell us during intake that a commercial licence is involved.
Start with one. Several charges written on a single citation are assessed together as one matter because they will be heard together. Genuinely separate citations are handled as separate matters, and you can tell us about the others during intake.
What we hold, why, and who sees it.
What you provide: the citation image, the details read from it and corrected by you, and the account information needed to own the matter. Where we ask for something sensitive, we tell you why at the point of asking.
The privacy notice sets this out in full.
The people who need it to do the work: our team handling the assessment, and the attorney considering or handling your matter. It is not a public record on our side, and we do not sell it.
That happens — a parent starting a matter for a child, an employer for a driver. The person who holds the account is not assumed to be the person named on the citation, and where the distinction matters legally you are asked about it explicitly.
Ask us directly. If you already have a case with us, sign in first so we can see the matter you are asking about.
