Buying · 05

The transfer isn't done. Don't pay the balance off.

Keys in your hand do not mean the motor vehicle office has you as the owner. The security interest, the plates, and the policy are three different jobs.

The statute. The link goes to the national law database.

What this is

Name it first

They can hand you the car and still not finish the registration. The sale can say who does the transfer, and when the car is delivered. The user and the owner are whoever the motor vehicle office has on file. That record beats the certificate in the glovebox. If a security interest is still on the car, someone else's debt can stay stuck to it.

What you can do now

0/3

Who you might call

Only if it fits

Also worth saying

The runner said next week it's done. Write next week as a date. A promise with no date is hard to use later.
I don't run transfers, and I don't look up your plate.
Keep the balance for last. Don't pay it all the moment the car shows up.

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I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not a mediator. I can't decide this for you. The statute that counts is the one still in force. Judgments live on the Judicial Yuan site.