Contact us before you pay your ticket. Hire The Napier Law Firm to challenge a traffic charge, review the evidence, and pursue the response that fits your case. We represent ordinary drivers and CDL holders. A speeding allegation, an insurance allegation, and a commercial-driver ticket need different defenses—not the same quick payment.
Paying the fine to resolve a fine-only traffic charge ordinarily results in a conviction. Under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 27.14(c), that payment is a finding of guilt and a written jury waiver. It is not merely an administrative fee. Paying costs or a fee under a court-approved disposition is different. Do not assume we can undo a conviction once you have paid.
Contact us before the original resolve-or-appear-on-or-before deadline on your citation. Leave enough time to retain us, provide the ticket and notices, and let us file our letter of representation. When timely retained, we file that letter before the deadline and request a new court setting. We confirm the setting with the court and explain your next obligations. Contacting or hiring us does not by itself extend the deadline; continue to follow it unless the court confirms a change.
Our traffic-ticket work includes Montgomery County and matters beyond the county. Send us the court name, charge, and original citation deadline so we can determine whether we can handle your case and discuss the engagement.
Start with the charge, not the fine
When you ask us to review a ticket, identify every alleged offense. Common issues to discuss include:
- Speeding and other moving violations: the alleged speed or driving conduct, the location, signs, and the officer’s observations.
- Insurance or proof-of-coverage allegations: what coverage and documents existed on the date of the stop, not just what you have today.
- Registration, equipment, and license-related allegations: the exact charge, the condition or status at the time, and any steps taken afterward.
- Multiple citations or an unresolved ticket: each charge, each court notice, and anything already paid, requested, or ordered.
These details guide the review; they are not a promise that correcting a problem will dismiss the charge. Bring the actual citation rather than relying on a payment-screen description.
Tell us at the outset if the incident also involves an arrest, DWI, reckless driving, racing, evading, or leaving a collision scene. Those allegations need a different review from an ordinary fine-only ticket. Our criminal-traffic defense page addresses that separate service area.
Hire us to build a defense, not just process a payment
We start by asking whether the State can prove the allegation. Relevant material may include the citation, available video, photographs, witness information, the officer’s account, and records related to the alleged violation. For speeding, we examine how speed was measured and the circumstances of the stop. We use supported legal and evidentiary issues to challenge the charge—not a promise that any ticket error guarantees dismissal.
We also identify the responses that are legally available. Contesting the charge, requesting an eligible dismissal procedure, and paying a fine are different choices. We explain a proposed disposition, its conditions, and the consequences of noncompliance before you decide.
For eligible cases, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 45A provides driving-safety-course dismissal and deferred disposition. They are separate procedures with different requirements. Deferred disposition depends on a court order and compliance with its conditions. Course eligibility depends on the offense and the driver, including license status, prior course history, and request timing. Taking a course on your own is not the same as obtaining a dismissal.
Our role is to assess the charge and available responses with you, then pursue the agreed defense within the scope of the representation. Ask what the engagement covers, including court appearances, trial, and any separate license issue. Hiring a lawyer is not a blanket excuse to miss a setting; get confirmation about your own appearance requirements.
CDL status changes the options—even in a personal car
Tell us whether you hold a CDL now and whether you held one when the alleged offense occurred. Also identify any commercial learner’s permit and whether you were driving a commercial or personal vehicle. A later license change does not erase the offense-time question.
Under Articles 45A.301 and 45A.351, Texas excludes current and offense-time CDL holders from the driving-course dismissal subchapter. The deferred-disposition subchapter excludes their motor-vehicle-control violations other than parking violations. These restrictions cannot be reduced to a rule about whether you were driving a truck that day.
Separately, the federal prohibition on masking convictions bars states from using masking, deferred judgment, or diversion to keep covered CLP/CDL traffic convictions off the CDLIS driving record. It applies in any type of motor vehicle, with specified exceptions for parking, vehicle-weight, and vehicle-defect violations. Those federal exceptions are not identical to the Texas deferred-disposition rule.
That does not mean a CDL holder must accept an unsupported charge. It means the defense must distinguish challenging the allegation from trying to hide a conviction. No lawyer should promise that a renamed or reduced charge automatically avoids reporting.
For court-specific CDL information, see our existing pages for Oak Ridge North and Woodbranch.
Put the record and the deadline in the same conversation
Texas repealed its Driver Responsibility Program effective September 1, 2019. The DPS repeal notice does not say that every license problem disappeared; it distinguishes suspensions based solely on unpaid surcharges from other suspensions. Do not rely on old Texas points-and-surcharge advice when evaluating a current ticket.
For an initial consultation, have the citation, offense date, answer or hearing date, license state, current and offense-time CDL status, and any court correspondence available. Tell us about prior pleas, payments, course requests, court orders, and missed dates. If the deadline has passed, say that first rather than assuming the case is closed.
Hire The Napier Law Firm before you pay and before the original resolve-or-appear-on-or-before deadline. Call (713) 470-4097 or contact us about your traffic ticket. Give us time to complete the engagement and file our letter of representation. We request a new setting and confirm it with the court; do not assume the original deadline has changed.
If you already paid, tell us immediately. Any remaining remedy depends on the judgment, court, and strict deadlines. We cannot promise to reopen the case. Ask how to provide documents securely before sending sensitive records.
General information, not legal advice. Contacting the firm does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship. The available defense and court requirements depend on the particular case.