Matt Hamilton is the Best Lawyer for a Lake Lotawana Municipal Court ticket.
Why Hire Him?
- Cost. The Hamiltons are the closest law firm to Lake Lotawana Municipal Court. Clients save money through “economics of scale.” Matt Hamilton is in Lake Lotawana more frequently, handling more cases, with greater numbers than other law firms. There is no need to pay another lawyer to “learn” how to fix a Lake Lotawana Municipal Court ticket. Do not pay more by hiring an out-of-town lawyer to drive to and from Lake Lotawana Municipal Court. Take advantage of our efficiency which is passed along to you by lower costs.
- Experience. Our Lake Lotawana Municipal Court Lawyers have handled Lake Lotawana tickets since 1969. We have the best knowledge of the Lake Lotawana City Municipal Codes. We master the facts of your case. Our experience is to craft a resolution that is in your best interests. You want the most experienced lawyer helping you for your Lake Lotawana case.
- Success Rate. We keep driving records clean. We keep convictions off your criminal record. We save your driver’s license points. We eliminate jail time. We save you money by lower fines and court costs. The point of hiring a Lake Lotawana lawyer is to obtain the result that is in your best interest. That is Matt Hamilton’s focus.
Where is Lake Lotawana Municipal Court?
Lake Lotawana Municipal Court is now a subdivision of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, at Independence. The old courthouse used to be off of Colbern Road and MO State Highway 7 within the city limits of Lake Lotawana. This is no longer the case. 
It is now located at:
308 West Kansas
Independence, Mo. 64050
What is Lake Lotawana Municipal Court’s Website Address?
When is Lake Lotawana Municipal Court?
Court is open in Lake Lotawana from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Court sessions are held typically on Thursdays, starting at 9:30am.
How Many Points will my Lotawana Ticket Cost my Driver’s License?
There are only twelve points on your driver’s license. Eight points will suspend your license. A number of traffic tickets will suspend your driver’s license, just for that one ticket! It is important to know and plan in advance what will happen to your driver’s license so that you can properly plan what will be in your best interest.
Follow this link and look to this article to determine how many driver’s license points you risk losing.
How to Resolve an Auto Accident in Lake Lotawana.
The Lake Lotawana City Prosecutor will want to see confirmation that any auto accident in Lake Lotawana has been resolved with insurance. You will want to provide us with your auto insurance. We will also want a letter from your insurance carrier indicating the traffic accident damages have been resolved through insurance. The Lake Lotawana City Prosecutor will want to see this to resolve your case.
Expect fines, court costs, and attorney’s fees. The amount of these will depend upon the severity of your Lake Lotawana auto accident. It is often not necessary for a defendant to personally appear for the court date if an attorney has been hired.
Auto accidents take a period of several months, at least, to resolve in Lake Lotawana. This is because of the delays with insurance company auto accident claims.
Call us for further details as each traffic accident has its own unique facts.
How do I handle a Driving While Intoxicated Charge in Lake Lotawana?
DWI and DUI charges in Lake Lotawana Municipal Court are the single most expensive and serious case brought there, in our opinion. Lake Lotawana Municipal Court does not handle felony DWI’s. However, misdemeanor DWI’s are regularly resolved there.
Expect two (2) years of probation. Expect to take the SATOP and Victim’s Impact Panel (VIP) classes. You can often avoid community service. There will be fines of several hundred dollars. You will spend a significant amount on attorney’s fees, depending upon the severity of the case and the amount work needed.
In the end, it is usually the case that the DWI in Lake Lotawana can be kept off your criminal record, kept off your driving record, and no conviction will appear on your driver’s license.
Call our municipal court attorneys for a specific analysis of your case as your facts will be unique as well as our resolution for you.
Driving While Suspended or Revoked in Lake Lotawana Municipal Court
Auto Accidents in Lake Lotawana Municipal Court
Car accidents in Lake Lotawana, Missouri will take the forms:
- Following too close,
- Careless and imprudent driving,
- Failing to maintain control of your motor vehicle,
- Failure to yield, or
- Similar traffic tickets.
These carry a fine of up to $225.00. There are court costs of just under $30.00. It can carry a jail term of up to ninety (90) days.
How your case will be resolved will depend first upon whether you had insurance at the time. The Lake Lotawana Municipal Court Prosecutor will expect to see a letter from your insurance carrier verifying insurance at the time and that the damages are being resolved. In addition, your attorney through our office will amend your traffic accident ticket to keep it off your criminal record and keep it off your driving record. You can expect to lose no points off your driver’s license.
Driving While Suspended and Driving While Revoked Lake Lotawana Municipal Court Traffic Tickets.
What about Speeding Tickets in Lake Lotawana Municipal Court?
Important changes have occurred with speeding tickets in Lake Lotawana. Look to this article for specific instructions on Lake Lotawana speeding tickets.
Lake Lotawana Municipal Court speeding tickets were traditionally the most expensive speeding tickets within the Kansas City Metropolitan area. Defendants would expect to pay nearly $100.00 more, on average, for a Lake Lotawana Municipal speeding ticket than other courts. The closest competitors as far as cost for speeding tickets to Lake Lotawana were Olathe, Kansas Municipal Court and Sedalia, Missouri. This has changed.
This cost has changed in recent years with the Missouri legislature passing certain laws to reign in Municipal Court fines.
Each speeding cost depends upon the driving record of the defendant as well as the speed. There are also other factors such as Construction Zone speeding tickets and speeding within a school zone.
Call us at 816-540-4040 for specific information and we can get you specific costs for speeding tickets.
Our goal will naturally be to keep these off your criminal record, keep these off your driving record, and save points off your license.
What is the Deal with Lake Lotawana?
Matt Hamilton here. I grew up around Lake Lotawana. It was basically an in-between community between Pleasant Hill, Lone Jack, and Lee’s Summit. You had to really like white trash folks to like Lake Lotawana. As a boy, my school bus drove daily through Lake Lotawana. These were my friends. It was a long drive, and we talked much. My Lake Lotawana friends were the best, but they were trashy, in candor. Land values were low. Police were a pain. Houses were crap. The lake was silted in, with bad water, bad docks, little room to boat, and not much going for it.
BUT, those times have passed! Loose regulations and proximity have transformed Lake Lotawana into one of the premiere housing communities in America. The new homes and additions can only be described as “awesome.” Big boats, massive docks, room for the new rich to flaunt, and all within driving distance of whatever one might want. Just … Don’t … Speed … on the roads!
Have you ever driven on Milton Thompson road? He founded Lake Lotawana, and Lake Tapawingo too! “Lotawana” is a Native American phrase meaning “sparkling water,” an irony one might percieve. Princess Lotawana of New York met an untimely end. ;-(
Lake Lotawana was originally cattle farms. It started as a depression project and will celebrate its 100th birthday in 2029. 1935 marked the first full water mark for Lake Lotawana’s “sparkling water.”
During the civil war, Captain Quantrill’s Raiders hid in the woods that would become Lake Lotawana. The Battle of Qualtrill’s Cove in 1862 as an ancilliary dogfight to the Battle of Lone Jack was real.
Lake Lotawana encompasses 11.29 square miles. 1,939 people reside in Lake Lotawana; that is 840 houses among 566 families.
