Like many states, Minnesota requires subcontractors and suppliers to send pre-lien notices to owners to perfect mechanic’s lien rights. Failure to comply with the pre-lien notice statute can prove ...

In an unpublished opinion, a California appeals court has upheld a subcontractor’s mechanics lien claim despite the subcontractor’s failure to strictly follow the procedural requirements set forth in ...

An estimated 24,237 taxpayers may have been adversely affected because the Internal Revenue Service did not follow requirements to notify the taxpayers’ representatives of the taxpayers’ rights ...

I stood in the dusty lot behind Westside Auto Storage (not the real name). My heart pounded seeing my old pickup chained behind a gate. I had missed one payment. Then I got a paper: A lien sale notice ...

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In Gravett, a structural steel erection sub-subcontractor brought suit to establish a mechanic's lien against a project owner's property. Six months into its contract, the sub-subcontractor had sent a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. In fact, the report says an estimated 24,237 taxpayers may have ...

Pennsylvania appellate courts have answered some of the most pressing questions in real estate law in recent months. The courts addressed matters such as cities' obligations to notify property owners ...

The Colorado mechanics’ lien statute was enacted in 1899, and has remained relatively unchanged since. The purpose of the law is to protect contractors who supply labor, materials, or services during ...

You rent a small storage unit in Santa Monica—just a few boxes of old memories, maybe furniture, a surfboard, that treadmill you swore you’d use again. Months go by. One payment slipped. Then another.

Wyoming’s mechanic’s lien laws are designed to protect individuals who provide labor or materials for the improvement of existing real property or new construction of real property. The intent is to ...