Parking Fines Galore!

barryt01

Hi all. I'm a regular Moneysaver.com user, but have not posted on the Forum before, so I am a virgin user!

I am appealing for anyone who might be able to offer some advice on a situation my girlfriend has found herself in. Basically her father occasionally uses her car to drive into London. He seems to think he is above the law, and doesn't need to pay for parking, congestion charge etc. and so has aquired numerous parking tickets and other fines which are in my girlfriends name as the car is registered to her. I believe some fines go back a couple of years.

To complicate the situation further, the car is registered to a flat in London that is owned by her Aunt (on her Dad's advice; all part of making it difficult to track him down!) which is rented out, so the tennants receive any correspondence. Any mail for her is collected every few months by her father and usually remains unopened and ignored. My girlfriends Aunt went to the flat recently and collected some mail and passed it on to my girlfriend, at which point she discovered several different debt recovery agencies are all threatening to seize her car on sight for auction. The tennants of the flat have also had visits from bailiffs looking for my girlfriend.

My concerns are these:

• Is my girlfriends only option to drop her father in trouble (she is reluctant though I am not!)?
• Will she be liable for any of the fines?
• Will it have affected her credit rating (bearing in mind the different address)?
• Will it affect her ability to sell the car, should she choose to?

I am concerned for her, but also as we are thinking of living together so need to know how it might affect me as well if we co-habit.

Any help / thoughts / advice would be gratefully received.

Thank you!

barryt01

savemoney

Might be best asking in motoring forum for a better response Barry

Motoring & Public Transport

barryt01

Thanks 'savemoney'.

I've posted a new thread on there.

barryt01