Q: 1995 vehicle stuck in a trust
I have a car that is titled in Colorado to a trust. My grandma signed the title over to me. I live in Illinois now and tried to get a new title but couldnt due to the trust paperwork being lost. Its a car from 1995 and has many many issues. I have a new car now and need to get rid of the old one. Is there any legal way to get rid of this crappy car? I feel like Im in an impossible situation.
A:
The successor trustee of the trust needs to provide you with a certification of trust that you can give to the motor vehicle department. This would certify who the trustee was then and who the trustee is now. That is all that DMV should need; they don't need a copy of the entire trust. Try that first.
If that does not work, the other thing you can do is just put it in "storage" with a storage yard (one of those places to which vehicles that are impounded are towed). Be up front with them that you don't plan to retrieve it and they can just foreclose on it for storage fees. They will then own it and can sell it for scrap or whatever it is worth.
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