This guide handles court financial obligations for an individual client and for a jurisdiction. It begins with the distinction between fines, restitution, and fees that determines what relief is available for each line on an accounting, and with the taxonomy that lets a practitioner classify a balance quickly. It covers obtaining an itemized accounting and finding the errors that a meaningful share of balances contain, building the financial record an ability-to-pay motion requires, and the waiver, reduction, and conversion mechanisms that statutes actually provide. It works through the escalation chain from missed payment to incarceration and the intervention points along it, license reinstatement, payment allocation and restitution priority, bankruptcy treatment, and the constitutional arguments including the excessive fines question and revenue-dependent adjudication. It closes with triage across a client's other obligations and with the systemic advocacy that has produced most of the change in this area.