HOW DO I KNOW IF A LIEN IS ENFORCEABLE?

Utah's Mechanics' Lien Statute may be the most complicated in the fifty US states.  It is dangerous for a contractor or property owner to try and understand it without an attorney.  The best rules a contractor who does not understand the process can try and live by are these:

(1) file a preliminary notice with the SCR when you start work on any job;

(2) file a mechanics' lien within 90 days of finishing any job if you haven't been paid; and

(3) have an attorney begin a foreclosure action on the mechanics' lien within 180 days of filing it.

 

 S. RINEHART

Mr. Rinehart graduated with a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in 2000, before attending lawschool at the University of Utah, where he finished his Juris Doctorate in 2003.  Steve focuses much of his practice on construction law, particularly mechanics' liens, and first-chaired three mechancis' lien trials in the last year in Utah's Second Judicial District Court and Third Judicial District Court.
Telephone (U.S.): 888-941-9933
Facsimilie No. (U.S.): 801-665-1292
Mobile Telephone No. (U.S.): 801-347-5173
Email: steve@utahconstructionattorney.com  
Physical Address: 136 E. South Temple, Suite 2400
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
United States of America