<p>OP- sounds like a viable plan. Easier than other plans. Given your father’s permission to drive his car your auto insurance should cover you. That way if there is an accident his insurance won’t get the negative mark. Your father should be able to sell the car to your D who then gets the car titled in VA. She would need a VA driver’s license most likely. I did research for WI-WA since son had moved and needed to transfer the title (H was on WI title, found out he needed to do nothing- hurray!). In theory the first month, but he procrastinated since he had just paid for the year in WI. Hopefully he took care of things- but, his problem, not ours.</p>
<p>Several years ago we sold my WI car to a southern CA relative. Their son had been on a trip to the east coast, saw us and picked up the car. We had mailed the signed WI title to them for transfer and they had to do something about an interim car license for the drive ( their son detoured through Montana to visit some old friends) and insurance.</p>
<p>Check the DMV sites for VA. Find out the fees involved. We moved to FL two years ago so I now have that experience as well. I remember keeping my mom’s name on my car when I was a resident in IN- she was making the car and insurance payments and IN license plates cost a lot more (value based, not a flat fee). There may be rules about fair market value because of sales taxes in the state. It is best if the car is in your D’s name since she will be using it- if there is any legal problem (accident related) you won’t potentially be the deep pocket with responsibilities as owner.</p>
<p>Situations like this make you wish for centralization instead of individual states’ ways of doing things- until you realize how much more expensive it could be and how much better it can be in your state.</p>
<p>Yes, thumper, he’s relocating to another state from MA. I just don’t like the idea of keeping the car registered to us while he and FDIL drive cross-country in the winter. He doesn’t have a car currently, so he doesn’t have his own insurance. Until he registers that car in his name, it would be covered under our insurance.</p>
<p>Shellfell, then yes…you will title the car over to him in CT, and the registration will be changed to his, as well as the insurance. He will give the plates back to you. Take them to the DMV, and return them. They will also give you a slip to take to your town hall so that your car is removed from YOUR tax list. It will be put in your son’s.</p>
<p>When he gets to his new state, he will have to register the car there…you need to check that state for the order of things. My kid is in AZ. He had to get his drivers license and insurance first, then register the car…in AZ. </p>
<p>Again…he will need to mail the plates back to you so that you can return them to the CT DMV and get that little slip to take to your town hall.</p>
<p>Thanks, thumper. I thought that’s what we’d have to do. I was hoping he could avoid having to register the car twice, but it looks like there may be no way around that. He’ll still be resident of MA when he gets the car, so I guess he’ll need to register it there first. I am aware of needing to turn plates back to DMV and bringing paperwork to town hall to get it removed from the tax rolls. </p>
<p>This was not as big a problem as I thought. We got a temporary drive away permit in Illinois. It allowed us to drive the car for 30 days before we did the title and registration in Virginia. (However, I did get to meet three of Virginia’s finest police officers as I was pulled over three times when they didn’t see plates. The Illinois drive away permit is a small piece of paper you stick in the back window.). </p>