credit laws apply to all states, they can legally reposses when you become 1 day late on a payment. Most finance companies will not reposses until at least 90 days past due with no contact from you. Check your loan papers on late payments. Finance companies don't want the car back they lose money and it's costly to repo a car. READ the contract. You can be repoed when you are in DEFAULT of the contract.
not without legal cause
If the debt is on the car, or the car was used as collateral for the loan, YES they can repossess the vehicle!
if the creditor's name is nowhere on the title,only your name,no one else. no liens. No one can legally take your car.
You cannot be arrested for not surrendering a car. Make arrangements for the creditor to retrieve the car. If not, the creditor can repossess the car because the discharge terminated the automatic stay.
Unless you are a creditor, I assume you mean can you surrender a car to the lender in a voluntary repossession. If the creditor will do it, you can. Obviously it will depend on the mileage and condition of the car, but these days it is complicated by the state of the economy, so not likely. You can surrender the vehicle in a Chapter 7, where the creditor has no choice.
In some situations, YES. The threat of it is uasually enough to get the car repoed.
As soon as you have defaulted on the loan, a creditor can repossess your car. So 24 hours after you have failed to pay, they can repossess your vehicle without notifying you.
Yes Usually they allow a grace period for an arears payment, but they do not have to.
Sure.
A creditor can repossess a vehicle at any time after a default(late payment, lack of insurance, etc.) occurs on the contract.
The loan company can repossess any car that the payments are delinquent on. Your BK does not prevent repossession of your car.
no they cannot