Need some help/FML/Eff me in the A
Rain
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So...long story. Buckle up, grab a drink and listen up.
My wife's cousin is a 20 year old female who works two jobs and goes to school full time to become a nurse. She was dating a man who abused her, but she never left because she felt she had nowhere to go.My wife and I invited her in to our home. Well, her ex boyfriend is crazy. I don't mean that in a figurative sense, he might literally have some mental problems.A few months ago, they bought a car together, with her as the primary owner and him as the secondary. After she left, he went out and bought a gun. He followed her home from work at midnight to our new house, approached her car and began to beat on the windows and rip off the door handles. She called the police instead of me, and they came and placed a protective order on her and the house. They also stipulated that he can not own a gun. Can't charge him with car damage since he is on the title.The next day he came and took the car. There was a 15 minute window the entire day that I was gone and that said cousin got home. Which means he was watching my house. Police say yeah he has it, but maybe he had a friend come get it.A week later, we're driving to get her W2s and she sees her car at a dealership. We approach, hoping we can take it and go. He's in the car. She starts taking her personal belongings from their car and he pushes her, so I pushed him. Well, he fell back in to a steel pole and a car, so he calls the police. The police talk to us all and arrest him by order of the DA, presumably because even though we approached him unknowingly he should not have pushed her. As I type this, he has been in jail two days.We can not find anyway to take him off the title. As primary, it's up to her to pay insurance. If she cancels it and he wrecks it, they'll go after her. If she surrenders it, he can still go get it and we're back in the same boat. They still want payment and he can still go get it.Thoughts? Sympathy? I feel so damn bad for her, it's like there is no way for her to get away from him.
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I have no help to offer bub, but Ill be praying that this some how gets resolved quick.
If she lets it go should could put back the monthly payments and once they take it she could buy a old clunker with what she had put back to get to and from but still far from great. Better options have to be available.
Sounds like that car is the problem, always be a target for this nut. I'd get rid of it at any cost and move on. Or maybe leave it out as bait and booby-trap it, but she pays the insurance you say, nope that won't work.
I was joking of course. . .Or maybe wishful thinking.
Another, albeit long shot, is to ask a judge to break the connection in the contract and take him off the title. They do have that latitude but it's a tough sell, made a little easier if she can show he's never put any of his own money into the car. Call me tomorrow if you want to talk.