Verbal breach of contract

-my inlaws owned a dealership, and when the dealership closed they gave my husband and I vehicles as gifts in May of 05
-I was told by my husband that we were receiving the vehicles as gifts.
-I signed papers for one vehicle and was asked to sign a retail installment contract, but was told by my husband (who worked at the dealership) that it was just a formality. I was confused but assumed the vehicles were paid for in full soon after the papers were signed
-My husband reiterated often during the marriage statements such as "my parents were very generous to give us over 40K in vehicles", "we are lucky our vehicles are paid for"
-My husband told my mother, father, and brother about the gifts
-Recently, my husband and I divorced. During the course of the separation, I was informed that my in-laws were no longer paying for the vehicle and I would have to start paying for it. The vehicle was upside-down on payments and a sizeable amount was still left to pay.
-As of now I did pay for the vehicle (traded it because payments were too high)
-I was willingly deceived when signing the retail installment contract. I was never told that "if I divorced their son, the vehicle would no longer be a gift"
-I was never specifically told by my ex in-laws that it was a gift. It was all conveyed through my then husband
-Do I have a plausible case to re-coup the remaining balance of that vehicle?

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Submitted 141 days ago...

ldsch

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I doubt you would be able to find an attorney anywhere that would take this case. The bottom line is that you signed a contract which obligated you to pay and I'll be willing to bet that if you read the fine print in the contract that you signed it will say there are no other promises or representations except those contained in the contract itself. You were very gullible and overly trusting in this matter and your punishment for thinking you could get something for nothing is obviously the "rent" you had to pay for the vehicle before you got rid of it. Next time, read the contract.

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