If you’ve ever looked at Levelset’s state-by-state resource page, you’ll see that each state has deadlines that must be complied with. One deadline common to every state is the time...
Complying with timing requirements is crucial to mechanics lien claims, but, as we’ve mentioned before, calculating these deadlines can sometimes be difficult. This is especially true in states with more...
Over the past several months, the Construction Payment Blog has spent a good deal of time discussing North Carolina’s recently amended lien laws, with special attention given to the newly...
As we noted in another post, more than 300 counties across the country offer electronic filing of mechanics lien and/or notices. Furthering electronic capabilities, some entire states, such as Iowa, are...
Construction Payment Blog recently discussed changes to the mechanics lien law scheme in Virginia. These changes mandate that every mechanics lien claimant have a license, and that the license number...
The Lien blog is constantly writing about both effective and potential changes in a state’s mechanics lien law. As we’ve noted, sometimes these changes can be innocuous, such as when...
The issue of whether or not attorney fees can be recovered under the Miller Act is a topic routinely discussed by courts, and by us on the Lien blog, because the law...
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...
Another blog recently discussed five of their top Ohio construction cases of 2012. Rather than just rehash what’s already been written, we here at the Lien blog like to imagine...
One of our most frequent topics here at the Lien blog is changes in lien law. Whenever state legislatures pass or even consider bills that propose changes to a state’s...