How to sell the car of a deceased

In many cases, the sale of inheritances received by family or friends can become an important source of income . However, you have to follow certain steps when managing these sales so that they do not become too cumbersome. In .com we explain how to sell the car of a deceased.

How to prove and adjudicate that you are legally the heir of that car

To facilitate the parties to carry out this process, we will divide them into two: The first, how to prove and adjudicate that you are legally heir of that car, and the second, change the ownership of the vehicle to have the possibility of selling it.

In the first part, we try to carry out the procedures to accept the inheritance that we have received from the deceased, and therefore, that the car belongs to us. The documents we need are the following:

• The Certificate of Death of the owner, which is issued in the Civil Registry.
• After 15 days of death, we must request certification from the General Register of Last Will Acts, to know if the deceased left a will before dying, and thus have a copy of the most recent one, in the event that he left a will. .
• In the event that he did not leave a will, he proceeds to make the Declaration of Inheritors . This is a process that takes place before a notary, in which the assets of the deceased are adjudged.
• Finally, and as an important part that we must not forget the adjudication process, we will proceed to the Settlement of Inheritance Tax, which must be done within 6 months of the death. Thus Finance will have proof of the completion of this tax by the person who has died.

Change the ownership so that the car is ours for official purposes

Once the previous procedures have been completed, the car is already ours, but we still do not have the capacity to sell it . Although legally belongs to us, for Traffic and Treasury, which are the protagonists at the time of selling it, still do not know what is ours. To keep records of this, we need these documents:

• Original and photocopies of the car's documentation .
• Fill and pay the Property Transfer Tax at the Treasury (model 620).
• In the Traffic Office, we must pay a fee for change of ownership .
• The certificate that certifies that the vehicle passed the last MOT without problems.
• The certificate that the vehicle paid during the current year or the previous year the Municipal Tax on Vehicles of Mechanical Traction .
• In the DGT, we will request the Request for Vehicle Transmission in which we will state that it has been carried out through inheritance.

All this documentation must be delivered at the Provincial Traffic Headquarters (accrediting our identity with the DNI) except the tax, which must be paid at the Treasury.

With these steps we will have our car for all purposes, and prepared to be sold as if in any other circumstance.