Walk It Through: The Unpaid Supplier
A notice of right to a lien, a claim filed, a notice mailed, and a suit or a lapse.
A remodel is underway, and a lumber supplier the owner never hired sends a notice of right to a lien.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One remodel and one supplier. Releasing a lien by bond, the notice an owner receives before a residential job, and whether a particular lien is valid are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- AgentThe person a power of attorney names to act for the principal, who has to use the principal's property for the principal's benefit unless the document provides otherwise.
- Claim of lienThe claim filed with the county recording officer not later than 75 days after the claimant stopped furnishing labor, materials or equipment, or after construction was completed, whichever is earlier.
- Construction lienA lien on an improvement held by anyone who performs labor on, transports or furnishes material for, or rents equipment used in its construction at the request of the owner or the owner's construction agent, and by an architect, engineer or surveyor whose plans or supervision the owner asked for.
- Notice of right to a lienThe notice someone furnishing labor, materials or equipment who was not hired by the owner directly gives the owner. The lien can be perfected only for what was furnished after a date eight days before it was delivered or mailed, not counting weekends and holidays.