Stuck in the middle: update
Aug. 11th, 2018 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mme_hardyIt turns out that in Indiana you cannot transfer a jointly-owned car merely by producing the death certificate. No. You have to probate the estate and have it issue Letters Testamentary. Note that my father's estate did not need probate before, because my mother was the surviving widow and all the financial stuff and personal property had been set up to pass to her automatically. violetisblue assures me that the probate process, followed by getting the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to recognize this process, is as much fun as you'd expect. I think I can cut out the Indiana BMV because the California DMV said they'd recognize the transfer with just a Letter Testamentary.
DOUBLE ARGH.
My husband notes that when his father died in North Carolina, my mother-in-law had to get her car title reissued before she could drive the car.
I have no idea why this happens. (I AM NOT A LAWYER) In the U.S. a car is not real property; it is personal property.
violetisblue assures me that the probate process, followed by getting the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to recognize this process, is as much fun as you'd expect. I think I can cut out the Indiana BMV because the California DMV said they'd recognize the transfer with just a Letter Testamentary.DOUBLE ARGH.
My husband notes that when his father died in North Carolina, my mother-in-law had to get her car title reissued before she could drive the car.
I have no idea why this happens. (I AM NOT A LAWYER) In the U.S. a car is not real property; it is personal property.
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Date: 2018-08-11 06:47 pm (UTC)Actually, it's an eight-year-old Prius, and my son loves driving it, so no. And he can't even drive it now!