You will not be happy with the answer. I expect you will be ending up driving the vehicle until it is junk. See to avoid a lien on a title, you have to do a motion to avoid lien with the bankruptcy court. This is rather pro forma while your bankruptcy was open. But it can only be done while the bankruptcy is open. So now, to do the motion to avoid the lien, which would then allow you to dispose of the vehicle with a lost title affidavit, or for that matter allow you to ask for the dept to issue you a new title, you have to reopen your bankruptcy. To reopen you must pay the filing fee, now $300 + with the court upon motion to reopen. You have to the do the motion to avoid lien, get an order to that effect and ask the court to reclose the bankruptcy. Unless there is value in the vehicle, as stated earlier, it might be a better plan to run it to junk and contact the lien-holder to pick up their junk for disposal.
Answered on Jan 20th, 2015 at 9:00 AM