Duplicate Title Instructions

So here’s how you get a duplicate title for a vehicle. It’s very, very simple. Now, this applies for a true duplicate scenario where you actually have a vehicle already titled in your name that you just lost a document.

Gather Required Documents
Collect up your ID, the registration for the car, any lien releases if there was a loan on the car even if it’s paid off.

Apply to the Correct State
You go to the state where the last title was issued. If you’ve moved since the title was issued or if the title came from another state, you have to apply to that state. You can’t apply to just happen to be where you are right now; it has to be the state where the title came from.

Costs and Submission
It’s very, very cheap. It costs between five and ten dollars in most cases. You present those documents to the DMV or Department of Transportation depending upon what state it is, and they will issue you a brand new title in the same format as the last one—same name, same address. They won’t make any changes. It is truly a duplicate title. It’s not a new title; it’s not any change of information. It is a duplicate title replacement.

Mail Option and Identity Verification
Sometimes the state will do it by mail if you don’t appear in person if the paperwork is notarized. They want to verify that the identity of the person getting the title is really who you say you are because you wouldn’t want somebody just to say that they need a title for your car and have mail it somewhere else. They want to make sure it’s truly you that’s getting the title.

Legal Ownership Requirements
No prior owner can do this. No new owner can do this. It has to come from the actual legal title owner as shown on the document. If there’s two owners, they both have to sign the paperwork.

Conclusion
A duplicate title is actually one of the most easy scenarios of a title replacement, but it has to be where you truly were the legal title owner printed on the front and the lien has been cleared so that you can get a new title exactly as the last one was printed.

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