Buying a car: owner deceased

**sparkplug** · July 27th, 2011 02:42 PM

Sir, need your guidance on this situation.

I am aiming to buy a "project car". To my knowledge, the car has been in the garage for 10 years now and I suspect that it has not been registered to LTO since the owner (whose name is in the OR/CR) has been gone now.

I understand that late registration will hit me a "late registration" penalty charge. which should be OK.

How about the transfer of ownership, how should this be handled if the owner is gone?

Need to do this assessment before making a formal offer.

Hope to hear from you sir.

**desert fox** · July 27th, 2011 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by sparkplug

Sir, need your guidance on this situation.

I am aiming to buy a "project car". To my knowledge, the car has been in the garage for 10 years now and I suspect that it has not been registered to LTO since the owner (whose name is in the OR/CR) has been gone now.

I understand that late registration will hit me a "late registration" penalty charge. which should be OK.

How about the transfer of ownership, how should this be handled if the owner is gone?

Need to do this assessment before making a formal offer.

Hope to hear from you sir.

inquire ka sa any LTO office nearest you, posible yan bro.....

**dodongo** · July 28th, 2011 02:06 AM

kakagawa lang namin nito last year, when my dad passed away. Although kami yung seller, unlike you, ikaw ang buyer. I think what we did was dinaan muna sa tita ko, bali, nilipat from my dad to my tita, then ganun namin binenta. I don't remember how though, I'll get back to you when I get more info.