The document that puts a lender's name onto a Kentucky certificate and, once the debt is cleared, the paper trail that takes it off again. It is also the one form in the whole TC 96 series that the Cabinet has withdrawn from its own website. In place of the file there is a one-paragraph instruction sheet, and what it says is that the Title Lien Statement form is no longer available on the MVL website and must be obtained from a Kentucky county clerk's office.
Written against TC 96-187 (not published online), issued under KRS 186A.190 and KRS 186A.193. Saying plainly that a form is unpublished is more useful than a dead link. If you have arrived here from a search result offering a downloadable Kentucky Title Lien Statement, that copy did not come from the Cabinet.
There is no download link for the TC 96-187 here because there is not one anywhere - the Division of Motor Vehicle Licensing does not publish it. The card below explains where it does come from.
There is no completed sample of the TC 96-187 on this page because the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet no longer publishes the form at all. Its instruction sheet says in one line that the Title Lien Statement form is no longer available on the MVL website and must be obtained from a Kentucky county clerk's office, so there is no file for us to render, complete and photograph. What is known about it from the Cabinet's own instruction sheet is set out above instead, and nothing about its contents is guessed at.
| On the form | What to put in it |
|---|---|
| Why there is no field list here | We do not publish a description of a document we have not read. The Cabinet's instruction sheet carries no facsimile, no field inventory and no sample, and inventing one from the form's title is exactly the failure this site exists to avoid. |
| What the instruction sheet does say | Two sentences, and both are quoted in full above: that the form has been withdrawn from the Motor Vehicle Licensing website, and that a county clerk's office is where to get one. |
| Where the clerks are listed | The instruction sheet points at the Cabinet's online searchable listing of county clerks for contact information. |
There is no TC 96-187 to read: the Division of Motor Vehicle Licensing does not publish it, so nothing on this page describes its contents beyond what the agency itself says about it — that is here — and what is on the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Division of Motor Vehicle Licensing 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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