Posted on 12/12/2011 5:35:16 AM PST by Battle Axe
I have been put in charge of handling my significant other's affairs. He was a Viet Nam vet, disabled, very orgnized, kept everything. I cannot find the titles to the vehicles. I have huge files of recipts, medical records, every magazine he ever received, as well as catalogs. But I cannot seem to find the titles.
For example, he had 25 stocking caps. They were all in one box, except for the one he was wearing, and labeled as such. He had 69 pairs of shoes, they were in plastic totes, rubber bands around them and labeled, totes with either duck tape or velcro. We did not live together so I am at a disadvantage.
I am assumming that the titles are together and in one place. Does anyone have any experience with finding stuff after the loved one is gone?
You can’t get new titles from the DMV. If the vehicles are recent purchases, or recently paid off, your state may not have even issues a paper title, which you must request.
obvious possibility, is there any chance there was a Safe Deposit Box at a local bank?
Ooops. That should have been “YOU CAN GET NEW TITLES”
still early, sorry.
Have you looked in the gloveboxes in the cars?
Are there any safety deposit box keys around?
Bank deposit box.
possibly in a bank deposit box.
check among any bank statements for reference to a fee for a storage box, or if he deals with a local branch, you
can check with them.
You might check there.
Did he have a safety deposit box at a bank? That’s where my parents had all of their important papers stored.
Find the vehicle registration, which should be in the vehicle, since it has to be shown in a traffic stop.
Then, take the registration to the place where license plates are issued, and ask them if a title has been issued for said vehicle. If it has, then you are back to square one looking for it, but if there is a lien holder they will know and the title will be in the hands of whoever owns the vehicle, the bank or credit union.
Good luck.
I think if the vehicles still are being paid for through say a bank, they hold the titles until the vehicle is paid off.
I’d also look for a lockbox in the house. Check closets and basement. Do you have his keys? Can you account for every key on the ring? One of them might be a clue. I doubt he would have kept them inside the cars, that makes life too easy for car-jackers.
Aren’t the titles supposed to be kept in the vehicle at all times?
Check among any uniforms he might have kept.
Do you have a Power of Attorney?
You are going to need one.
ok, ok, ok......
I’ll get on it....
I know the importance of being organized....
I’m 58......and mortal.....
Need to get key material gathered.
Map locations of other key material.
Keep a copy in a separate place.
Others have suggested safes or safety deposit boxes. Another idea is if he had a file cabinet or filing system, look under titles like Titles, Automobile Titles, or Vital Records.
No. You are probably thinking of the Registration.
Someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but I think a DPOA expires upon death of the individual. One needs to be named as the executor in the will which (of course) needs to be done prior to the death.
That’s how it was explained to me as I am my mother’s DPOA and executor in her will.
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