Every state has enacted lien and pre-lien laws designed to ensure suppliers and installers for construction projects receive payments and are also in place to protect property owners from unsubstantiated claims. To preserve their rights to payment, suppliers and installers must issue pre-lien notices to owners, contractors, and sureties at the outset of the project and often at various times during the project.
Notices must include shipment and delivery times, customer and property owner identification, payment amounts and history, surety information and other data as specified by the lien statutes of each state.