nc laws are hardfast! new owner can get a tittle made if vin comes up clean!! if there was no will then spouse gets a kids equal share!!!! but the executor of the estate can get away with untold fortunes! seen it play out many times! if you push this hard enuff, the car will become a ward of the state and sold at auction and money split between kids and spouse equally!! if the car was put back in the estate then youd halfta buy daughters half from her!!! if the new owner can prove he has put moneys into the car he is entitled to restitution! really ant a way for it to work out and you come away happy! if daughter can prove you abandoned the car, you ant gotta chance, and if it gose to court thats the path her lawyer will seek....dWB