When is a car exempt from title transfer in massachusetts?

Car title transfer issues?

• Ok so this is a really messed up situation, and please don't give me any guff, please understand I thought I did this with family I could trust, but now I know better. So I'm in Missouri, and sold a car in November of 2010, before the end of the year, before property taxes would be charged. I sold the car to my cousin, and her boyfriend. In May of 2011, I went to register a new car, and was told I had back prooperty taxes owed on the car I sold. I tried getting ahold of my cousin, with no luck. Family close has since told me she took of with her illegal immigrant boyfriend, who signed the title of the the sold car, tried registering it under a false name, and was deported back to Mexico, and my cousin followed. So now, I have no bill of sale, no title, and no car, with a large sum in back property taxes and penalties due to the state, with no buyer information. My cousin has since got in touch with me from Mexico, asking if I would apply for a lost title on the car so she can sell it to "a friend of hers" in the States, I told her yes, but I need a BoS, and buyer info, to no avail. My question is, how do I get this title out of my name?! The car from what I've heard is useless now, totalled, and I don't even know where the car is now. I just want this off me, and don't know where to begin.

• Answer:

  There should be a form for release of interest in a vehicle. It is to protect the selling party from anything that may happen from the time it was sold to the time it gets registered by another party. You are on the hook for the taxes though. If that doesn't work, then get the lost title, and report it lost/stolen.