To provide contractors, subcontractors, materials' suppliers and vendors a legal method of guaranteeing payment for their services on construction projects, state statutes allow them to file liens ...

An El Dorado Hills viewer spent more than $100,000 on a pool, but the contractor didn't pay a subcontractor, who then went after our viewer. It was time to call Kurtis. If a contractor doesn't pay a ...

The form of partial and final waiver of release that you should use depends primarily on where you are in the chain of contracts. Are you the general contractor? Are you a subcontractor? Are you a sub ...

The Washington construction industry is now in the era of Johnson vs. Spokane County. This 2003 Washington Supreme Court decision (rightly or wrongly) eliminated many common law construction ...