Hi,

Please advise,

A couple of years ago my then 88 year old friend who both my wife and I were looking after due to him not having any family members received a court summons due to not sorning his car which was quite a shock to him, and his car had been in his garage for over a year due to his driving licence expiring, my wife is down as next of kin and we wrote to the Magistrate explaining the situation and consequently the car was sorn.

When my friend received this news he wanted my wife to have the car even though it had no MOT and the value was around £150, both he and my wife signed the V5C but did not date it because we did not have a garage to keep it in and at the time we thought that was the right thing to do, he also signed a piece of paper to say he gave permission of the transfer of ownership and he did date this in 2019, unfortunately my friend had a fall shortly after and due to covid-19 he was sent to a nursing home and last year he was diagnosed with dementia.

Inevitably the care home cost look as though his house will need to be sold, and we do not have room to store the car, so we decided to get the car MOT done which cost us £300 and are now thinking of selling it.

So the question is!!!

We have sent for a new V5C online in my wife's name but we are worried that if we are legally challenged should we have put the original date or the current date on the V5C as proof ?

Thank you

Edited by toonaroon on 12/06/2021 at 15:25