The mother says she repeatedly asked her son to have the car’s license plate changed to his own name. “At first I thought it was fine, but not anymore, because I am getting too old,” the 83-year-old woman explains in court. “I have to keep working to pay all the costs.” She works at a catering company in Amsterdam.
In summary proceedings, the woman demands that the judge oblige her son to have the license plate transferred.
Fines keep pouring in
According to the woman, she gave her son money to buy the car a few years ago. She has never driven the car herself, she says.
Meanwhile, the costs are piling up. The woman says she not only has to pay the road tax and insurance, but also countless fines that her son would have received for traffic violations with the car. “I’m not willing to work for that,” she says. “I would actually like to stop working, but given these amounts, that is not possible.”
This would involve dozens of fines for, among other things, illegal parking, speeding and not having the car inspected. The woman says she has now paid more than 50,000 euros in total. Through summary proceedings she is claiming back a small part of this: 1,164 euros.
‘Must go through the courts’
The son was not present at the hearing. “He is angry that I am doing this,” says the mother. She emphasizes that she has been trying to get the car in his name for a long time. “I thought you could convert it this way, but that turns out not to be the case. If I want to have the license plate transferred, I have to go to you, to the judge.”
The judge will make a ruling in two weeks.