What are my legal rights when a car loan is under my name for another person?

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What are my legal rights when a car loan is under my name for another person?

I helped a ex-boyfriend a year ago and put a car loan under my name which in understanding that he would pay the payments on time. However he has failed to do so and he had also gotten a payday loan under my name without my OK. And now the car is about to be repossessed because of non-payment. What are my legal rights? He’s trying to say that I owe him money to take back ownership of the car. When Ipaid for the car insurance and paid for over half the car tags this past year. What are my legal rights since the car is under my name and not his?

Asked on December 6, 2011 under Bankruptcy Law, Kansas

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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 12 years ago | Contributor

If the car's registration that you are writing about is under your name as well as the loan, you need to keep the montly payments current on it or it will be repossessed and sold at auction where most likely it will be sold for a deficiency. If it is sold for a deficiency, the lender will be seeking from you the amount owed on the loan.

I suggest that you have your former boyfriend place the vehicle in your possession for you to make the payments on and use. I fail to see where you owe any money on the car since he used it and it is about to be lost in a repossession.


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