How to fill out Kansas TR-128

The narrowest form in the Kansas set, and the one whose limits matter more than its blanks. Kansas law forbids issuing a title with an unreleased lien unless the transfer has been consented to in writing by the lienholder, and this is that consent - but the sheet's own NOTE confines it to one family of transfers: adding an immediate family member, spouse, father, mother, son or daughter, removing a name, or a name change from marriage or court order, on a Kansas electronic or paperless title, with at least one previous owner remaining. Any other assignment, the form says in capitals, must be obtained on a Kansas paper title.

Top of the blank Kansas TR-128, Lienholder's Consent to Transfer Vehicle Ownership, as the agency publishes it

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Top of our filled-in example of Kansas TR-128, Lienholder's Consent to Transfer Vehicle Ownership

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Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank TR-128 from the ksrevenue.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our TR-128 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Written against TR-128 (07/24), issued under K.S.A. 8-135(c)(1). Read the relationship line as strictly as the county will. The immediate family this form recognises is spouse, father, mother, son and daughter - narrower than the tax exemption's family tree on the TR-215, which reaches grandparents and grandchildren. A transfer to a grandchild can be tax-exempt and still be outside this consent form's reach, needing the paper-title route instead.

Last updated August 22, 2026.

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual TR-128, rendered from the PDF the Kansas Department of Revenue, Division of Vehicles publishes and completed end to end: letterhead, every field, and the blocks at the foot.

Amber — you write it
Grey — not yours to fill
Numbered — explained below

Kansas Form TR-128 Lienholder's Consent to Transfer Vehicle Ownership filled in: a 2019 Kia Forte, vehicle identification number 3KPF24AD9KE201936, current owner Gervase P. Regier of Overland Park, lienholder Cottonwood Draw Credit Union of Salina consenting with their signature dated 08/03/2026, the subscribed-and-sworn date completed with a notary commission expiring 02/17/2029, new owner Delphia S. Regier with relationship spouse, the assignment filled out on August 3 2026, the owner's hand printed name completed, and every signature line - lienholder, notary, owner and new owner - left blank for ink. — A spouse being added to an electronic title with the credit union's lien staying on the record - the one family of transfers this sheet exists for. Amber is split three ways: the owner's entries, the lender's sworn consent with its notary dates, and the new owner's awareness block. All four signature lines stay blank for ink, and the printed warning above the vehicle band explains why nothing on this form is ever corrected.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
You fill this in
Check the NOTE before anything
The paragraph in the middle of the sheet that says who this form is for: adding a spouse, father, mother, son or daughter, removing a name, or a marriage or court-order name change, on an electronic title, with an original owner remaining.
Watch out: If your transfer is not on that list, stop here - the capitals say any other assignment must be obtained on a Kansas paper title, and that means a lien release first.
2
You fill this in
Vehicle and current owner
ID number, year, make, model, and the owner names exactly as the Kansas certificate of title carries them.
Watch out: No corrections, ever - the header voids the form on any alteration or erasure, so a slip means printing a fresh sheet, not reaching for correction fluid.
3
The lienholder fills this in
The lender's sworn consent
Their name and address, the authorized signature and date, and the notary block - subscribed and sworn, commission expiry, seal.
Watch out: Book this signature first; it is the slow one. The credit union's officer, their notary and their diary set this form's timeline, not yours.
4
You fill this in
The new owner
Relationship, name(s), address, and the date the assignment was filled out.
Watch out: The relationship word is checked against the NOTE's list, not the tax list - spouse, father, mother, son, daughter. Write the one that is true and on the list, or this is the wrong form.
5
You fill this in
Three signatures, then the county
Your signature and hand printed name, the new owner's signature under the awareness sentence, and the trip to the treasurer.
Watch out: The closing paragraph gives Kansas residents 30 days from the assignment to apply at the county where the vehicle is garaged - and the departing name should reread the warning that leaving the title may not mean leaving the loan.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Vehicle Information	Vehicle ID number, year, make and model, under the warning that any alterations or erasures will void this form.
Current Owner Information	The owner(s) listed on the Kansas certificate of title, with address.
Lien Holder Information and Consent	The lender's name and address, the consent paragraph - authorizing the transfer with their lien recorded on the new Kansas electronic title - the authorized signature and date, and the notary block: subscribed and sworn, notary signature, commission expiry and seal.
New Owner Information	The relationship of the new owner, their name(s) and address, and the date the assignment and transfer was filled out.
Owner and new owner signatures	The current owner's signature and hand printed name under a sworn-statement sentence, and the new owner's signature under its own printed acknowledgement: I, new owner, am aware that my name is being added to the title of this vehicle.

What gets this one rejected

•Using it to sell to a stranger. The NOTE's capitals settle it - any other type of assignment must be obtained on a Kansas paper title - and a paper title for a liened vehicle only exists after a release. A financed sale to a non-relative runs on the TR-39a and a payoff, not on this sheet.
•Using it when Kansas has issued a paper title. The form's own sentence: if Kansas has issued a paper title, this assignment cannot be used.
•Removing every original owner. The transfer works with at least one of the previous owners remaining as an owner on the new Kansas title - a complete change of hands is exactly what this form refuses to carry.
•An unsworn consent. The lienholder's signature block is built around the notary - subscribed and sworn, commission expiry, seal - because a Kansas lienholder's consent is one of the documents the Division's notary rule actually covers.
•Any correction on the face. The header's warning is absolute: any alterations or erasures will void this form.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•Removing a name does not remove the debt. The sheet warns the departing owner in its own words: removing your name from the title may not release you of liability from the lienholder. The loan contract outlives the title record.
•The application follows within thirty days. The consent's closing paragraph puts a deadline on the family's side of the deal: Kansas residents must make application for title within 30 days of assignment in the county treasurer's motor vehicle office where the vehicle will be garaged.
•Every signature has a printed name beside it. Owner signature with hand printed name, new owner's signature under the awareness sentence, the lender's authorized signature - the sheet collects three parties, and the county keys all of them.

Every line here was read off TR-128 (07/24) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Kansas Department of Revenue, Division of Vehicles pages. This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ, theirs governs.

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Adding or dropping a name is on the Wyandotte County tag office's list of title work; see where Kansas City, KS title work is done, at two county counters.

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How to fill out Kansas TR-128

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Check the NOTE before anything

Vehicle and current owner

The lender's sworn consent

The new owner

Three signatures, then the county

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

Forms that go with this one

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