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Please HELP! 14 year old drunk hit my mom's parked car! What can she do?

She only had liability insurance but not for the uninsured driver. The car is a total loss and my mom has been paying it for 2 years. The car was parked in the garage and around 3 am it was hit by a 14 year old drunk driver. She is thinking about filing a lawsuit but does anyone know what else she can do?

Update:

I forgot to mention that the car is stolen. It has california plates and was in texas. ugh.. this feels like a nightmare.

Update 2:

My insurance company was involved, that's why I know it was "totaled." The other car was stolen and from California, we are from Texas.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    You go after the boys parents and/or the owner of the car if they are not one in the same.

    Liability always stays with the car if not driven by the owner and parents can be held responsible for the actions of their children, particularly if they were negligent. The very fact that a 14 yr old was driving drunk is prima facia evidence of that which is very hard to dispute.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Suing the driver is the only way to get the money back. Make sure you have all the details of the incidence including the contact details of the other driver before you approach a good lawyer. This case should be easy to win.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If the kids insurance won't pay, she will have to sue him and his parents. If Moms car is financed ("my Mom has been paying it for 2 years"), then she must have collision insurance and if she does, it will pay for repairs or will pay if her car is totaled, (after she pays her deductible). If insurance companies have not been involved, how do you know the car is "totaled"? They are the only ones who can determine that.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    i'm not an accompanied mom, however the older sister of two (now grownup) accompanied brothers. i think of approximately their organic and organic mom just about ever time I see them. in comparison to lots of the "heat fuzzy" emotions here, that's not what i think of in any respect. i could not hate her with a similar venom I felt whilst i substitute into youthful, yet I nonetheless think of of her with a bitter scorn in my coronary heart. i think of of ways genuinely cruel she substitute into to do what she did to those boys (they have been the two born with FAS) and to the 5 different infants she bore who have been accompanied out to families different than mine. i think of of her using fact the epitome of a lot is incorrect with our society. mutually as each and every now and then i can discover pity in my coronary heart for her, there is by no skill heat temperature and truly by no skill LOVE. Oh, advantageous, she gave me my brothers - yet she did not supply them the lives they might desire to have had. She bore infants that have been mutilated from start - broken so as that their lives could continually continually be mere shadows of what they might desire to have been, with extra discomfort and frustration than every physique would desire to would desire to undergo. What, precisely, am I meant to love approximately that? on the different hand, i understand that not all "start mothers" are like her. i understand different families that have amiable or maybe friendly relationships with the organic and organic mum and dad of their infants. Others, who've much less open relationships, nonetheless have a feeling of gratitude in the direction of the barer of their captivating infants. it is nice, in circumstances the place the mum did all she would desire to to guard the youngster and easily would desire to not advance him/her.

  • REV B
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Hire a lawyer, they know about local laws.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    WHAT?

    Come on, stop pulling everyone's leg!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    sue.him

    he.cant.drive.anyways

    and.he.was.drunk

    cant.be.that.hard.to.win..

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