Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Missouri

me and a friend of mine had a verbal agreement on a car, she couldnt afford the paymens anymore and i couldnt get a car payment as low as hers because of my credit, we agreed that as long as i made the payments monthly to her that i could have the car and pay it off. i also paid the taxes on the car as well, which she was supposed to pay being that she bought the car in september of last year and by february this year they still werent paid. i have never been late on a payment to her ever! Now she is saying that she wants a new car and cant get one because this one is stilll in her name, so if i dont get the car refinanced in my name which i cant because of my credit that she is going to "take it back" with no compensation of the 2 grand that i put into the car.........legally what can i do??


Asked on 7/17/10, 4:13 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Anthony Smith LawSmith

You shoudl immediatly write a letter to your freind describing the deal and asking her to write back as to why she wants to change it. If she signs the letter backto you, it with a copy of the letter you wrote may make your verbal agreement a written one. This may allow you to keep the car for now, and to get some compensatin if she takes it back. You may have to go get new financing to get to keep the car, as the letters may show that the new agreement is that you make payments to her until you can get financing, not till you get the financing you want.

Good luck

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Answered on 7/19/10, 1:46 pm


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