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Ca resident own/register/insure car in Pa?

Dennis H

Dennis H

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Summary: Linda bought a 99 Grand Marquis to keep back East in Pennsylvania when visiting the rotten kids. One owner Florida car 50k miles. At time of purchase was told CANNOT register car there if not a resident. Son in law was at the Notary and agreed to put car in his name. There is a divorce now and he won’t give up the title. Told her to consider the car lost. Forget it. Now she found an 09 Ford Confusion with 15 k on it for 5k. Don’t want to repeat mistake.

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33 IMP said:
Get her a Pennsylvania drivers license with your daughters address.
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Not sure I understand. Girls are all hers. One lives at the farm Linda owns. It is not an income property.
 
Now I'm comfused. Linda is your wife, wants to visit her daughter in Pennsylvania, and have a car there, correct? So, get Linda a Penn drivers license, using her daughters address, (or any workable address, if Linda owns it, GREAT!) then title and insure in your wife's name.
 
You can only have 1 drivers license at a time, Period. If she has a CA d/l, then she can get a PA ID card with her daughters address as a seasonal residence. Such as snowbirds. Then register vehicle at that address. This is typical of most states. However, some states have Very strict residency laws. Either way, she can only have 1 d/l and as many state ID's as she likes.
 
Wouldn’t she have to relinquish the California License? Took a lot of effort to get the real ID.
5 forms of ID, baby shoes, hat your Mom put on you guys n the way home from the hospital...3 days at DMV.
 
Dennis H said:
Wouldn’t she have to relinquish the California License? Took a lot of effort to get the real ID.
5 forms of ID, baby shoes, hat your Mom put on you guys n the way home from the hospital...3 days at DMV.
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Why not register the car in her daughter's name? It's her daughter after all.
 
Dennis H said:
Wouldn’t she have to relinquish the California License? Took a lot of effort to get the real ID.
5 forms of ID, baby shoes, hat your Mom put on you guys n the way home from the hospital...3 days at DMV.
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Only if she gets a PA license. If she gets a PA ID card then she is ok. NV actually has a "Seasonal Resident" ID card for snowbirds. AZ it's just a plain ID card so you can register n insured your vacation vehicle there n You continue to keep your primary residence state D/L.
 
Dennis H said:
Summary: Linda bought a 99 Grand Marquis to keep back East in Pennsylvania when visiting the rotten kids. Son in law was at the Notary and agreed to put car in his name. There is a divorce now and he won’t give up the title. Told her to consider the car lost. Forget it.
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Man, your kids really are rotten, aren't they? Sorry for your hassles. Good Luck
 
This is a very strange circumstance. The point of vehicle registration is so that the DMV fees pertain to the state where the vehicle is garaged and driven on the highway. It does not matter where one has a driver's license in most cases.

I know from experience that those living on the California/Nevada border sometime register their vehicles in Nevada to avoid higher fees, but if they are caught garaging the vehicle in California they are in trouble with the law (because California wants that cash).

Now why would Pennsylvania want a vehicle on their turf to be registered out of state, losing the annual registration fees for no good reason? The whole matter seems silly to me.
 
To follow up on my post above, rental cars pay registration fees where the vehicles are rented, not on whereabouts the customers have their driver's license, which in many cases is a foreign country.
 
Dibbons said:
This is a very strange circumstance. The point of vehicle registration is so that the DMV fees pertain to the state where the vehicle is garaged and driven on the highway. It does not matter where one has a driver's license in most cases.

I know from experience that those living on the California/Nevada border sometime register their vehicles in Nevada to avoid higher fees, but if they are caught garaging the vehicle in California they are in trouble with the law (because California wants that cash).

Now why would Pennsylvania want a vehicle on their turf to be registered out of state, losing the annual registration fees for no good reason? The whole matter seems silly to me.
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Moving here (Pennsylvania) from another state you only have so long to register the vehicle or they will write you up for it. And the cops look for this. They have a anual safety inspection in Pa, gotta make that revenue. Also I would think the insurance comes into play.
 
Dude all the snow birds in FL have fl cars with fl tags I'm sure there's a way to get it taged
 
It would seem a lot simpler to just keep it registered in CA if you have no residence in PA. What are you trying to avoid by registering it elsewhere?
 
Linda flies Southwest. Doesn’t drive Coast to Coast. Not about the money. It’s the convenience. Combed the Pa dmv website. Nothing.
 
Because, THIS!
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Hell even my f-in-law has a Florida drivers licence and vehicles tagged/insured down there and he's a Canuck. If Linda owns the farm in PA no reason she can't register a vehicle there. Next trip just walk into the DMV with a tax bill, her CA drivers licence and say hello to get a PA one.
 
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