Q: Is it legal to sign a vehicle over to a dead persons trust
My mother in law died my boyfriend is trying to make me sign a truck into her name so he can set up a trust on her behalfHe has no liscense and her will hasn't even been submitted and it's been a year is this legal and can the vehicle be registered and driven by him just because the trust is in her name
A: the whole idea sounds very flakey. First, he can't establish a trust having as beneficiary a dead person; nor can a trust naming her as trustor be established after her death either. And, of course, even if such a trust were to own the vehicle. that would do nothing to allow him to drive it. It looks like he either has a serious drug problem or needs the services of a mental health professional. Refuse to have anything to do with it.
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