When you remodel a kitchen or replace a roof, you probably focus on design choices and contractor bids, not the legal paperwork that decides who can come after your house. Yet the most expensive ...

Homeowners usually focus on design choices, budgets, and schedules when they remodel or build, but the paperwork that protects your title often gets pushed to the bottom of the pile. The most ...

A construction lien waiver is a legal document saying a party waives future lien rights against a property. Lien waivers are designed to protect both a payer and a payee. Payers are protected from the ...

Soon after the lien came the lien waiver, said to be necessary to protect property from specious claims. What started out as a simple means of proving that an owner had paid, however, has taken a long ...

Lien waivers are tied to almost every payment in construction. Because lien waivers are exchanged so routinely on construction projects and are so closely tied to payment, it is important to ...

If you get into a construction dispute concerning payments made to your contractor, subcontractor, or supplier, you want to be sure that your lien waivers are enforceable in your jurisdiction. A lien ...

To many, a lien waiver might seem like one more minor item on a construction contract full of small items. But failing to use lien waivers in a timely and proper way can lead to problems for everyone ...

Owners loathe and contractors love mechanic's liens. Regardless of point of view, mechanic's liens are an American institution as old as the Bill of Rights. In 1790, President George Washington chose ...

Lien waivers are part of doing business for contractors. If you want to get paid, most owners or general contractors will require that you submit a signed lien waiver with your payment application. On ...

North Carolina Avenue is one of the hottest properties in Monopoly, says most of my kids. And if you are a contractor or subcontractor in North Carolina, the law makers recently afforded you some ...