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Bring Construction Billing into Focus

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Clear visibility over invoices, lien waivers & payments inspires seamless money management & accelerated job timelines. The clean and intuitive dashboard offers a bird’s-eye view over each invoice, compliance document, lien waiver and payment, which makes invoice tracking and management easy as a click of your mouse. Greg Ragsdale.

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#123:  Bonding Around a Mechanic's Lien

NH Construction Law

When a general contractor or lower tier subcontractor or supplier records a mechanic’s lien attachment on property, security for the lienor’s hoped-for judgment is achieved – but often something more, and perhaps unintended, is achieved. Consolidated Electrical Distributors Inc. Eclipse Construction, Inc. ;

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#144:  What Is a “Material” Breach Justifying Contract Termination?

NH Construction Law

Burlington Coat Factory of New Hampshire, LLC , 159 N.H. If a sub or supplier sends a notice of intent to lien, consider issuance of two-party checks. But if the breach does not impact safety, quality, timeliness or risk of liens, the better course will usually be simply to ride out the storm.

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#72:  Determining the Amount of a Mechanic's Lien

NH Construction Law

Suppose the contractor applied for and got a mechanic’s lien attachment on an ex parte basis in the full amount of his claims (unpaid balance, interest and anticipated attorneys’ fees). If the owner then files an objection to the lien and asks for a hearing, what will be grounds for the judge to reduce or eliminate the lien?

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#86:  Mechanic's Lien Deadlines and Additional Work

NH Construction Law

The requirement in RSA 447:9 that a mechanic’s lien must be secured within 120 days of the lienor’s last furnishing of labor or materials has occasionally spawned disputes over what counts as that last day. ’ Work of that nature could be found not to be such as to extend the duration of plaintiff’s lien.”

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#134:  30-Day Accountings for Subcontractor/Supplier Mechanic’s Liens

NH Construction Law

It is generally recognized by New Hampshire courts that “[f]ailure to comply with the specific statutory provisions of perfecting a mechanics lien is usually fatal,” Alex Builders & Sons, Inc. Danley , 161 N.H. 19, 23 (2010). Bostwick , 69 N.H. But rarely are such amounts updated in 30-day intervals.

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#113:  Waiving the Right to Arbitrate

NH Construction Law

Nine of the eleven circuit courts of appeal, including the First Circuit which embraces New Hampshire, had said yes. Morgan ’s definition of waiver – “the intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right” – is identical to New Hampshire’s. Sundance, Inc. 2022 WL 1611788 (U.S.,