Vehicle in his name but she has it and moved it across the country

[armywifewsugrad]

My husband was previously stationed at Ft. Lewis. His home is in Montana. His ex-wife's parents live in Montana as well. She married a new guy and moved to Tennessee. She has three children from three different guys, and has only received her GED in terms of her education. She receives child support for the two older children which is over a thousand dollars. Her new husband is in the army as well and shoud be receiving a BAH for their housing and money for the youngest child, which is his. She does not work.

My husbands vehicle is in her possession, and she has taken it to Tennessee. Her credit is too poor for her to change the name of the car into her own. This means it is left in my husbands name and he must make the payment each month. They have worked out a deal where he pays the car payment, deducts that amount from what he should be paying in child support, and pays her the rest. She then always threatens she needs more money and he should pay the full child support AND the car payment. How can we resolve this car situation? What steps need to be taken?

As it is the child is sleeping on the ground on a blow up matress. He doesn't even have a bed. I found recent pictures of her online that show new tattoos (expensive) and with beers in front of her at bars. She doesn't have a job, so is this where the child support is going? I feel so sorry for my step-son and her other children too for their living situation!

[Lee Borden]

First, this isn't your fight. I know it affects you, but when you married him, you already married into his history of failed relationships, and you need to come to grips with the reality that you lack portfolio here.

If your husband is subject to a court decree setting child support and is systematically paying less than that amount to the mother of his children, he's making a grave mistake that experience says will come back one day to pop him. Mom has NO POWER to negotiate an offset against child support; the only one who can do that is the judge.

[armywifewsugrad]

I know that it isn't my fight and there isn't anything I can do, but he doesn't know what to do and so I am trying to find options for him. If he just gets the car repossessed it will affect both of our credit. So I am trying to see what the options are that we have.

[Me2]

if the vehicle is repossessed, why would it affect YOUR credit score.

It would only affect his, unless the loan is joint with your name on it.

Yes, it affects the ability for you two to apply for a joint loan and both have a good credit score.

Since there's a divorce decree -- how does it address the subject of this car?