Title Help

I am a notary for Ohio, the routine may differ in pennsylvania but here in ohio it is a total pain in the rear to get a title when you have none. How it works here is If you have a bill of sale you can keep yourself out of trouble for recieving stolen property if that turns out to be the case but to obtain the title you had to file a petition through the courts and explain why they should grant you a title (and for this you have to go to the state capitol for court) or the other option is for if the previous title was filed in ohio(don't know about if they were from out of state) for a fee of course the clerk of courts will research the title and they have to contact the person who the title is registered to and ask them if they are willing to send the title in to clerk of courts office and allow it to be released from their name. If they feel like being a dick they can say no and say they want their property returned in which case you forfeit the vehicle. Its a crumby system to fight your way through. It also took over a month to get the title for the bike my brother bought. By the way with these places one hand ususally doesn't know what the other is doing, it wasn't until the third or fourth place that my brother called that said it was even possible to get a title so I advise you call every state agency under the moon until you get the answer you want. Otherwise try out the web site that guy put a link up for. I had never seen that before but I am bookmarking it just in case I have a need in the future. Good Luck to your buddy in his adventure with this one!