Q: Does a added owner change on mobile home title overide a living trust agreement done years earlier?
Wife was added as a owner to her fathers mobile home title 4 yrs ago. "Or" between names. He died recently. He had set up a living trust years earlier naming someone else as beneficiary. Who is the legal owner of the property?
A: This is not a real property question since mobile homes are titled as motor vehicles, which are personal property and have different rules regarding title to the same. Generally and without seeing the trust, if an asset was not transferred into the trust, the property remains titled to whosoevers name is on the title. Per Fla Dept of Highway safety and motor vehicle practices if a person is on a motor vehicle title separated by or as opposed to and, either one can change the title. Since it is a motor vehicle title your best bet is to go to a tag agency if you are wanting to change it into your wife's name.
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