Georgia news:

  Mechanics liens are serious business. Because of the potential for foreclosure, mechanics liens are a great tool available to those contractors, subs, and suppliers who face nonpayment. While the...

A mechanics lien is the best tool a contractor, sub, or supplier has to enforce payment. While other remedies are often available, nothing gets a property owner to pay what is...

It’s not uncommon for construction liens to appear in the headlines. Even high profile property owners have struggled with construction payment. Liens have appeared next to the names Donald Trump,...

When a contractor, sub, or supplier works on a public project, a traditional mechanics lien is unavailable to enforce payment. Generally speaking, private parties cannot encumber public property. For this...

Construction projects can be costly, especially for large-scale public projects to create and expand infrastructure. Because of this, public entities have expanded their use of non-traditional financing or funding methods....

Georgia State Senator Lindsey Tippins has proposed Senate Bill 269 in Georgia to amend the “priorities between liens of mechanics/materialmen.” The proposed amendment is short and easy to understand, essentially...

Earlier this year we wrote a few articles about legislative changes to the Georgia mechanics lien statutes – first about the legislature passing the amendments and then later about the...

Just a few weeks ago we wrote about how the Georgia legislature had passed several amendments to its mechanics lien law that were only waiting on the government’s signature.  We’ve...

Levelset, of course, has excellent resources describing current Georgia mechanics lien law.  But as the LIEN blog has written a lot about recently, states are constantly amending their lien law...

A construction company in Georgia got stiffed $175,000, and filed a Georgia mechanics lien for that amount. Then, they made a mistake that is a pretty difficult mistake to predict....