On July 1, 2012, a whole host of changes to California’s mechanics lien law went into effect. Given the substance of these changes and new requirements, the Lien blog published...
A recent decision out of a California appellate court upholds the California lien law standard by which a mechanics lien is valued by the lesser of the contract amount or...
A basic feature of a mechanics lien is that a lien enables an unpaid contractor or subcontractor to receive the money that he or she is owed. Unfortunately, determining exactly...
I received an interesting telephone call from a client recently, which caused me to dig a bit deeper into California’s recent mechanics lien law changes with respect to the “new”...
The California mechanics lien law has always required claimants to deliver a copy of any filed liens to the property owner. Prior to the recent 2012 amendments, however, there was...
Earlier this month, the California 4th District Court of Appeals encountered a bizarre situation in Coastline Corp. v. Famers & Merchs. Bank of Long Beach. The September 21, 2012 unpublished...
The California Court of Appeals looked at a full-sized installed $200,000 modular home, and refused to call it personal property (as the installer had requested). Did they make the right...
The California Court of Appeals issued a fairly routine decision this week as part of an unpublished opinion in Dynamic Commercial Plumbing v. Preferred Bank. The decision offers nothing ground-breaking,...
California’s mechanics lien laws changed on July 1, 2012. Over the past few days, Levelset has selected important components of the changes and published articles about each on its Construction...
California’s new mechanics lien laws are serious about their preliminary notice requirements. Under the new statutes, failing to send a preliminary notice will not only forfeit your mechanics lien, bond...