MasterCaneman
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ORIGINAL: kalikshama FR to other posters - what happens if Chris and James do break up and James stops paying on the car? Assuming her father starts making the payments so his credit is not affected, does he then take James to court to get the title to the car? It all depends on the state the sale happened in. If James' name is on the title, he gets to keep the car, and the father (if he wishes to keep his credit intact) has to keep paying for it, in the simplest terms I can relate. It's not fair, can and does get ugly, but that information should have been relayed in detail on the inception of the note. The father can attempt to (again, depending on the state) plea rescission (I don't know the actual legal term-lawyer types here help me out) and see if a court could convince the lien holder and DMV to reassign the vehicle. Other than that, he's paying for someone else's ride. And I have seen this happen more than once before. Boyfriend/girlfriend team goes to buy a car, individually their credit blows, together its enough to get the car, which is usually way more than they need. Fast forward a couple months, boyfriend out of the picture, he's got the car registered and insured in his name, isn't making payments. Girlfriend calls us in tears trying to salvage what little credit she has left, we can't do a thing legally. Oh, and you can swap genders on this too. The ladies are just as guilty of this stunt. If she wants to keep/build her credit, she has to keep paying on it while ex BF is out entertaining his new lady friend in his fine, free ride. There are guys who have done this not just once, but numerous times. Before I left, I was working a deal with one guy who had done this exact same stunt three times previously just at my old dealership. He wasn't on the note, but he was the one who registered/insured it, so guess who gets to keep it (barring a GPS/SID installed)?
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