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[quote=ragebot]I am in a similar situation but it seems to be getting resolved.  What I did was contact DMV and they did a title search and found nothing about the boat ever being registered.  They suggested I go to the Clerk of the Court and sue DMV for a declaratory judgement.  Went to the COC and got the paperwork.  Since I have a legal background I did a little research.  Judges want proof of a real dispute before they will issue a judgement.  This means you have to prove DMV will not issue a title to you.  While the judge will take your word for that and the more stuff you have like a bill of sale at least I knew the more sheets of paper you have the better.

What happens when you file a suit against DMV for some reason I can't completely understand they contact FWC to do a comprehensive title search.  As long as what FWC comes back with is OK you get the title.  But when I talked to DMV about proof that they would not issue a title (I don't like going to a judge and saying 'believe me, I am telling the truth' I like to have a piece of paper backing up what I say)  DMV said I could contact FWC directly; they would do the comprehensive title search; send the paper work to DMV and DMV would issue me a title with no involvement from COC.  DMV said it would save time and money for everyone since they would not have to deal with a suit and FWC would have to do the comprehensive search anyway no matter what I did; this is what I told FWC.

So I contacted FWC and after speaking to three different people I was told someone would call me.  Nothing happened for a couple of weeks and I called back; have to admit Dorian may have been to blame.  In any case the FWC guy looked at the boat, to verify the HIN, did the search and emailed me he sent the stuff to DMV and in a few weeks I should get the title.  That was last week and I all I can do now is wait.

Bottom line is there is a lot of paper work that has to be done.  My brother had three wreckers and seven semi trailers so he got lots of abandoned cars.  His wife handled dealing with the DMV to get titles and often he thought it was not worth the effort to get a clean title for some of the cars.  Not trying to dis beach cats but spending many hours of your time; and probably more hours of state employees time to get a clean title for a boat worth a couple of grand or so seems like a lot of effort for not a lot of reward.[/quote]

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