Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Virginia

My fiance lives out of the country. He had his cousin to purchase a truck to be shipped to him for work related reasons. The seller lives in Detroit, cousin lives in Minnesota. The truck was listed at $10,000 and final offer was $7950. My finance had to send payments to split payments per Western Union stipulations due to the amount being sent. My finance sent $5000 to seller and and other $5,000 to his cousin. The seller charged $7950 + misc fees. Bottom Line: the balance owed was $2950. This is the final amount that the cousin paid (though he rec'd $5,000). My fiance has been unaware. I myself through research track down the seller who in turn provided documents such as the title and bill of sale. These two items has only the cousin's name on it. In addition, my fiance sent his cousin $1,000 travel money and $3500 to ship truck. This has been over a year now, we have no truck and no money. How do we get the title transfer out of the cousin's name. We've tried nicely to settle this problem but the cousin is playing hard ball now.


Asked on 4/25/10, 11:23 am

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

Well, it would seem that it's high time for your fiance to start playing his own

brand of "hard ball" and sue this apparently untrustworthy cousin in the

appropriate court in Minnesota. Yep, that's right, unfortunately ----all the way up to "Viking country" to file suit in the appropriate court there against this cousin to have any realistic chance of recovering anything from this deal gone bad (in my opinion).

And, if for understandable reasons your fiance himself is not able to get

up there to file the papers, then he will need to retain an attorney in

Minnesota to do it for him.

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Answered on 4/30/10, 11:41 am


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