nevada
If buyer dies during car sale
<p>If a buyer dies during a car sale, and the car was already  reproted sold to the DMV but not registered, what happens?</p>

<p>Does</p>

<ol>
<li>The car registration  get unfrozen back to the seller after you inform the dmv?</li>
</ol>

<p>Or</p>

<ol start="2">
<li>Does the car go to the buyers estate and is picked  up by whoever gets the inheritance?</li>
</ol>

<p>2 sounds more legal but 1 sounds easier for the dmv.</p>

<h2>You can’t die “during” a sale</h2>

<p>The formation of a contract is instantaneous, if the buyer dies they have to die <em>before</em> there was a contract in which case the seller keeps the car or <em>after</em> there was one in which case the buyer’s executor and the seller must do everything necessary to complete the sale (or breach the contract and get sued).</p>

<p>This has nothing to do with any administrative obligations that either party owes to a third party like the DMV. Failing to properly transfer title may lead to complications and disputes latter on but it doesn’t directly affect the contract.</p>
