Arrested for DUI or DWI?
Your court date can wait. Your license can’t.
An arrest starts two cases. The criminal one moves slowly. The one that decides whether you can drive starts at the motor vehicle agency straight away, and it is the one that usually runs out.
- Every number cited to statute
- Nothing publishes unverified
How long do you have?
Two answers, and we will show you the deadline your state actually sets, with the statute it comes from.
Choose your state to see whether we have checked its deadline against the statute.
General information, not legal advice.
Days
not weeks. Every state sets its own deadline, and it is shorter than people expect.
2
cases start at your arrest. Only one of them is the criminal case.
Every
figure on this site is cited to the statute it came from, or it does not publish.
Find your state
A state publishes once a person has read the statute and checked every number in it.
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If you were just arrested
- 01
Find the paperwork
An officer handed you documents. One of them is usually a notice about your license, and it often doubles as a temporary permit and a hearing request form.
- 02
Work out the deadline on it
Put a reminder in your phone several days before it falls, not on the day itself. Missing it suspends your license whatever the court later decides.
- 03
Decide about a lawyer this week
Not every first arrest needs one and the cost is worth weighing. The license deadline is what compresses that decision into days.
Answers, not ads
Most directories answer who you can hire. These answer what happens to you, when, and in which courtroom.
What happens after a first DUI arrest
The two cases, the paperwork, and your next thirty days.
DUI vs DWI: what is the difference?
In most states, none. In a few, it changes the charge.
This site publishes general information about DUI and DWI law. It is not legal advice, and reading it does not create a lawyer-client relationship. Statutes change. Confirm anything you rely on with an attorney licensed in your state.
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