Construction Payment Blog

Last week, the Puget Sound Business Journal (@PSBJ) published an article I wrote about mechanics lien laws in Washington state. Thanks to them for contacting me about the guest contribution...

Over the years, I’ve published lots of charts and data sets with the mechanics lien and preliminary notice requirements. Mechanic lien laws almost mandate such charts and spreadsheets, as the...

  It’s hard times for the United States Postal Service, and has been for years. The news is cluttered with stories over the past three or four years about the...

So you’ve correctly filed a mechanic’s lien in Louisiana to secure your rights to payment – What now? In Louisiana, like every other state, the process does not end with...

Preliminary notice statutes across the United States are written similar to California’s statute, which requires all parties who did not contract with the property owner to deliver a preliminary notice within 20...

This February, we focused a lot of attention on state bond claims, authoring a series of blog posts that discussed state bond claim issues that ranged from basic to technical....

The Construction Payment Blog welcomes Seth Smiley, who contributes this guest post about payment bond claims in Louisiana. Seth is a partner at Wolfe Law Group, and a contributor to...

The Construction Payment Blog welcomes Seth Smiley, who contributes this guest post about payment bond claims in Louisiana. Seth is a partner at Wolfe Law Group, and a contributor to...

Projects involving condominiums, and securing your lien rights against them, always raise unique questions: Can lien be filed against the common elements? Does the lien attach to the whole development...

Thanks to guest blogger Christoper G. Hill for his contribution to our State Bond Claims Blog Series, addressing the topic as it relates to Virginia’s Little Miller Act. Christopher G....