My husband’s employer (HQ in Colorado, Texas address on the vehicle paperwork) shut down with no notice in 2025 and filed bankruptcy. He was driving a company-owned vehicle that’s been parked in our Texas driveway ever since — over a year. No one has ever contacted us or come to get it.
The buyer’s tag lists the company as the purchaser. So I’m treating this as company property that’s now part of the bankruptcy estate. We’d like to take legal ownership rather than have it sit indefinitely.
Where I could use direction:
• How do I find the case and identify the trustee? I have the company name and the state(s) involved — is PACER the right place to start, and what am I searching for? • Can a trustee sign a vehicle over to us, or sell it for a nominal amount? What’s the usual process for requesting that? • After a year with no contact, is it likely the trustee already abandoned it as worthless (11 USC 554)? If so, what does that mean for our ability to title it? • If there was a lienholder/lender, does the lien survive the bankruptcy, and would we need them to release it before we can get clean title? • Was the filing likely a Chapter 7 (liquidation) given they closed entirely? Does that change who we deal with? Trying to find the cleanest path here. Happy to share more detail.
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