Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Virginia

unhappy

paid $4,000.00 for a car with a written,signed,notarized and signed reciepts for the money. Still have no title and fear repossession of the car. How possible is it for the car company to review my documents and go after the owner of the car and not take repossession? Even if I take her to court it would take years to collect, if at all. I realize I'm grabbing at straws but that is all I have to hold on to in hopes the car I paid for stays with me. She is willing to let the car people know that she is at fault but can not pay the $4,000.00 that I paid her. I need to know what is it I can do to not be out of $4,000.00 and a car. Please respond.


Asked on 1/05/03, 7:25 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: unhappy

You've got it right in your reference to "grabbing at straws" in this situation. The car company has no obligation to you whatsoever

and, of course, will repossess the car since the loan has not been paid.

I have previously answered questions on this website posing the same scenario that you have described, i.e, a hapless buyer who has paid good money over to a would be seller who either cannot or will not deliver good title for the vehicle,

mainly because the seller doesn't have the title and cannot get the title because the money which

the seller has received has been squandered on something else rather than paying off the car loan.

Small claims court, I'm afraid, is your only, albeit unsatisfactory, remedy.

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Answered on 1/06/03, 8:12 pm


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