Who is In Charge of Transferring a Car Title When the Owner is Deceased?
Transferring a car title from an owner who is deceased can be difficult to do. In most cases, the administrator or executor of the deceased person’s estate has the ability to transfer a car owned by that person to another. If a car was owned by the deceased person and another, for example a spouse, the surviving spouse may have the ability to transfer the title into his or her own name. In this case, legal documentation like a death certificate, copy of the deceased person’s estate and may be requested by the DMV (or MVD) in order to complete the car title transfer.
