Two problems: First- my stepdaughter is engaged to a guy that I think may have a "hidden" past. He is 30, still lives at home with Mom and Dad, and does not have a driver's license. My stepdaughter once said he had a wreck and someone was killed and his license was pulled and he has just never bothered getting them back (which sounds kind of odd to me). She didn't say "He was INVOLVED in a car wreck where someone was killed" but that "He HAD a car wreck where someone was killed". I'm wondering if he perhaps caused the wreck (maybe driving under the influence) and served time in prison for this and now cannot not get a driver's license. Does anyone know if that is a stipulation of parole for someone convicted of vehicular manslaughter or something along those lines?
Problem #2: My husband and I moved out of Florence and had an older car in our yard that needed some work. The transmission was messed up. We were still paying on the car and when we moved, the stepdaughter's fiance' said he would take the car to his house until we had room to store it at our new home (the previous owners at the new house had 3 old autos we had to dispose of and it took a bit of time to do it). Fiance' made the comment about maybe working on it and letting our stepdaughter drive it if he could get it running, which my husband said was okay. Well, we are having some financial problems and when the bank asked about the car, we called the fiance'. He won't answer our calls and the stepdaughter says she doesn't know anything about it, but that it is not at his house now. Another relative of my husband's said the stepdaughter told them the fiance' put the car on the side of the road a few miles from the fiance's house and the city took it as an abandoned vehicle. Now the bank wants us to come up with the car and we have no idea where it is. We let the fiance' take it (not knowing about his character <see previous problem) with the understanding he would store it for us or fix it up for the stepdaughter to drive. Now it's gone, he won't talk to us and the stepdaughter has lied to us about not knowing where it it is. Any suggestions about what we can do legally about this? My husband wants the man to pay for the car if he has done something with it without our knowledge, but we aren't sure what legal ground we have to stand on.
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