When we shipped our cars to our kids at USCal, we registered the car in their names and they had to go to DMV to get it registered there. We did get them AAA so they could go there for the DMV instead of waiting in the endless line at the DMV. Since they had older cars it was good to have AAA with extended towing for parents’ peace of mind anyway.
D said the police frequently ticketed student cars parking on the street that weren’t switched to CA registration, including many of her friends. I’m not sure whether they were successful fighting the tickets, just knew we didn’t want tickets and hassles.
Agree that your kid needs to calendar and move car to avoid getting ticketed for street cleaning RE street parking. It helped D to make an appt on her calendar to move car so she’d remember.
I have known plenty of OOS students in CA who have never had a problem, not to stay that your DD won’t be asked, but if she has an OOS car and an OOS driver’s license she ought to be ok. Her being a student or not, income, rent, etc. is not likely to be asked by the police pulling her over.
When life is complicated choose your story and be consistent, either she is or is not a resident of CA and everything she does should hang on that fact.
Another question will be income taxes if she has taxable income, CA forms will ask how many days she spends in CA each year, so year one fall and year two spring are fine, but in between she may be a tax resident if she has income
@Hunt , you are maybe a little delusional if you think she is going to be leaving California anything soon. Sure, she could wind up back in New York some day. But her first job as a USC Screenwriting MFA is 99.99999% likely to be in California.
I’m imagining the dialogue in Traffic Court:
Q: Do you intend to live in California?
A: No, I’m just here for school. I plan to leave as soon as I graduate.
Q: What school? What degree?
A: USC MFA.
Q: MFA, really? In what?
A: Screenwriting.
Q. [Suppressing laughter]
You know how the song goes:
If everybody had a studio
Across the USA
Then everybody’d be screenwritin’
Like Californ-i-a
They’d all be wearing those baggies
Huarache sandals too . . . .
I hear you, JHS. It’s likely she’ll stay there. But my hypertechnical legal mind says she’s not a resident until she forms her own intention to stay there, which hasn’t happened yet.