Tag: Mississippi
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Fifth Circuit Upholds Payment Bond Rights
Payment bond rights under your state’s Little Miller Act statute are not easily avoided. Little Miller Act statutes allow subcontractors and lower-tiered parties to make claims against the payment bond that every general contractor must post for public projects. This process guarantees a certain level of protection for subs while ensuring a level of efficiency…
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4 Important Points About Mississippi’s New Lien Law
This guest post comes from friend of the blog, Robert Wise, a construction law attorney in Mississippi (Sharpe & Wise PLLC). Robert was influential in the drafting and passing of Mississippi’s 2014 mechanics lien law re-write, which made substantial changes to the state’s mechanics lien scheme. As this article title indicates, this post provides 4…
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7 Procedural Requirements Under Mississippi’s New Construction Lien Law
This guest post comes from friend of the blog, Robert Wise, a construction law attorney in Mississippi (Sharpe & Wise PLLC). Robert was influential in the drafting and passing of Mississippi’s 2014 mechanics lien law re-write, which made substantial changes to the state’s mechanics lien scheme. As this article title indicates, this post provides 4…
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How Mississippi’s New Construction Lien Law Expanding Lien Rights for Mississippi Subcontractors, Materialmen, and Design Consultants Came To Be Law
This guest post comes from friend of the blog, Robert Wise, a construction law attorney in Mississippi (Sharpe & Wise PLLC). Robert was influential in the drafting and passing of Mississippi’s 2014 mechanics lien law re-write, which made substantial changes to the state’s mechanics lien scheme. As this article title indicates, this post provides 4…
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Mississippi’s New Mechanics Lien Rules Explained, With Forms
In 2013, ground crumbled underneath the mechanics lien laws in Mississippi when the state’s courts declared the “Stop Notice” rules completely unconstitutional. For years and years, subcontractors and suppliers relied upon these stop notice rules to make any type of lien claim against construction project and improvements. The effect of the remedy being declared unconstitutional…
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Get Paid? Better File a Mississippi Lien Release
The recent signing into law of SB 2622 has turned Mississippi lien law on its head, and completely changed the rules and requirements of mechanics liens in that state. New notice requirements have been imposed in some situations, new parties are entitled to protection, new deadlines apply, and the lien waiver scheme has been restructured. The…
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Mississippi Lien Waivers – A New Approach
The recent dramatic changes to Mississippi’s lien law scheme completely changed the landscape of construction security in Mississippi. Mechanics liens are now available to subcontractors, sub-subcontractors, and suppliers instead of only to original contractors. In order to benefit from those new-found lien rights, however, some parties may be required to send one or more of the newly created…
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Changes to Mississippi Lien Law Include Required Notices
The recent changes to the Mississippi lien law scheme were substantial and transformative. Yesterday’s post announcing that the re-imagining of Mississippi lien law had been signed into law set forth the big changes as to which parties qualify for leon protection. Parties who contract with the property owner are no longer the only ones who…
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Mississippi Lien Law Changes Signed Into Law
The Construction Payment Blog has been keeping a close eye on the tumultuous state of mechanics lien law in Mississippi for the past 6 months. It seemed like change was on the horizon when the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deemed Mississippi’s Stop Notice law facially unconstitutional as it deprived general contractors of…
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New Mississippi Lien Rights To Be Patterned On Georgia Law?
Late last year, The Construction Payment Blog noted that sweeping change may have been headed for Mississippi’s Stop Notice Law, and it looks like that change may have started to occur. Current State of Mississippi Lien or Stop Notice Protection [quote style=”boxed” float=”left”]a decision from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals set the groundwork for…