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Specialized
Driving Privileges

If your license is suspended, we can help you get back on the road.

Effective January 1, 2015, Indiana courts may stay driver’s license suspensions and grant specialized driving privileges for most people with suspended licenses. Our attorneys have helped clients obtain a license for work, to transport children to school, and for medical appointments. Specialized driving privileges can be granted to stay suspensions for:

  • Habitual Traffic Violators
  • Lifetime license suspensions
  • Administrative suspensions
  • Court imposed suspensions
  • Suspensions following criminal convictions      

When can I apply for Specialized Driving Privileges?

If your license is suspended, there is no waiting period to apply for specialized driving privileges. That means if your Indiana driver’s license is suspended, you can apply immediately if you qualify.

Who is ineligible for Specialized Driving Privileges?

Specialized driving privileges can be obtained for most suspensions. However, a person is not eligible if he or she has never held a valid driver’s license; holds a CDL; has refused to submit to a chemical test; or is suspended for an offense that resulted in someone’s death. A person who held a CDL at the time of the offense, but no longer holds a CDL and was subsequently issued a qualifying license, is eligible.

What are Specialized Driving Privileges?

The Indiana laws authorizing hardship and probationary licenses have been repealed and replaced with specialized driving privileges. Courts have broad discretion when granting specialized driving privileges and can limit driving to employment or other purposes approved by the court. If your license is suspended, it's important to hire an attorney with experience in obtaining specialized driving privileges.

Gibson Law Office Represents Clients Statewide

If your driver’s license is suspended, call Gibson Law Office today toll free at 855-9-GIBSON. We have represented clients in more than 70 Indiana counties. We can help you obtain specialized driving privileges anywhere in Indiana, including: Lafayette, Crawfordsville, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Anderson, Muncie, Noblesville, Bloomington, and Martinsville.

Lafayette Attorneys for Specialized Driving Privileges

If your Indiana driver’s license is suspended, you may be eligible to petition for Specialized Driving Privileges. If the suspension was imposed by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for administrative reasons, you must file a petition for Specialized Driving Privileges in the county where you live. If your license was suspended due to a criminal charge, you must file a petition in the court that has jurisdiction over the criminal case.

Administrative suspensions include:

  • 5 Year Habitual Traffic Offender
  • 10 Year Habitual Traffic Offender
  • Lifetime Habitual Traffic Offender
  • No Insurance Suspensions

Criminal suspensions include:

  • Operating While Intoxicated (OWI) Probable Cause suspension
  • OWI conviction
  • Operating while suspended

If you live in Lafayette, Frankfort, Crawfordsville, Fowler, or Delphi, Indiana it’s almost impossible to commute to work without a driver’s license. If your Indiana driver’s license is suspended, call Gibson Law Office. Our Lafayette attorneys may be able to help you obtain a license to drive for work.

Bloomington Attorneys for Specialized Driving Privileges

It is common for people in Bloomington, Martinsville, Bedford, Spencer, Nashville, and Bloomfield to commute to jobs in other towns. If your Indiana license is suspended, call Gibson Law Office. Our attorneys can help you get back on the road.

For people living in Bloomington, Indiana, or the surrounding counties, having a driver’s license is almost essential to being able to get to work. However, thousands of Hoosiers have a suspended license due to a criminal case or being a habitual traffic offender. When attorney Brett Gibson was a law student at IU, he lived off campus so he knows the importance of having a driver’s license in Bloomington.

Fortunately, Indiana has a law that allows for Specialized Driving Privileges. Specialized driving privileges can enable most people with a suspended license to drive to work, transport children, to medical appointments, and for other reasons approved by the court. Specialized Driving Privileges can be granted for persons suspended due to operating while intoxicated, no insurance suspensions, and habitual traffic offenders.

Fort Wayne Attorneys for Specialized Driving Privileges

Specialized Driving Privileges can be ordered for persons suspended due to Operating While Intoxicated and other traffic convictions. Persons suspended by the BMV for being a habitual traffic violator for 5 years, 10 years, or life can also petition for specialized driving privileges.

If you live in Fort Wayne, Bluffton, Decatur, Dekalb, Columbia City, Wabash, or Huntington, Indiana it is very difficult to get to work, or transport children, without a driver's license. If you need a Fort Wayne attorney to apply for Specialized Driving Privileges, call Gibson Law Office.

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