Missouri Lien Law: Priority Over Unrecorded Deed of Trust
The Missouri Supreme Court issued an opinion yesterday weighing in on a battle between a builder’s mechanics lien and a lender’s unrecorded deed of trust. The lender argued that the...
The Missouri Supreme Court issued an opinion yesterday weighing in on a battle between a builder’s mechanics lien and a lender’s unrecorded deed of trust. The lender argued that the...
This is a guest post from our friend Christopher Hill of the Construction Law Musings blog. Christopher is a construction attorney in Virginia who has contributed to the Construction Payment...
This sounds like it has an obvious answer. Of course, lien law nuances prove otherwise as there are some scenarios when your right to file a mechanics lien could actually...
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...
Who are you? Seems like a simple enough question. You’d be surprised how often mechanics lien claimants wrongly identify themselves in a mechanics lien, and you may even be surprised...
Zachry Construction made a big legal news splash a few years ago when they won a three-month-long trial against the Port of Houston, awarding them $20 million. Their trial attorneys,...
Massachusetts’ statutes explicitly render void and unenforceable contractual clauses where a party waives its right to file a mechanics lien. ALM GL ch. 254, § 32. The state’s courts, however,...
The Arizona (Division I) Court of Appeals last week issued an opinion with a very robust discussion of mechanics lien laws in Wang Elec Inc v. Smoke Tree Resort LLC....
In many cases, Arizona’s mechanics lien law is very similar to California’s mechanics lien law. However, the two statutory schemes are substantially different when it comes to the timeframe for serving a...
There is very little wiggle room in Arizona’s preliminary notice requirement, as we discussed in the recent post “Everyone Must Send Preliminary Notice in Arizona.” Nevertheless, a recent case from the...