Disclaimer

LienBuild is a document-generation tool for construction payment documents. LienBuild is not a law firm, does not provide legal services, and does not act as your lawyer. Nothing on this website, in our templates or help content, in the documents you generate, in the Recovery Plan's suggested steps and dates, or in communications with our support team constitutes legal advice or creates an attorney–client relationship.

Construction lien, waiver, and payment laws vary by state and change over time. Whether a document is valid, timely, or enforceable depends on facts specific to your project — including the state where the work is located, the terms of your contract, and the dates on which you performed work, served notices, and sent invoices. You are responsible for reviewing the information and documents this site produces, deciding how to use them, and confirming they are appropriate for your situation.

We strongly encourage you to consult a licensed attorney in your state before you serve, file, or rely on any lien, waiver, or demand document, and before taking any other action that could affect your legal rights. If you would like help finding an attorney or a licensed legal service provider familiar with construction payment law in your state, see Find a construction attorney below.

LienBuild is not licensed to practice law in any jurisdiction, and no employee of LienBuild provides legal advice through the service.

Every document LienBuild produces is a form: statutory text or an industry-standard layout, filled with the information you enter. The service records the statutory provision a rule comes from and the date that text was last verified, and it prints that reference with the document.

LienBuild does not decide whether a document applies to your job, does not choose between two documents for you, and does not sign for you. It presents the statutory facts and formats the document; the decisions are yours, and so is the signature.

A Recovery Plan is a workflow, not a legal procedure. The dates it suggests for the reminder, demand, and notice steps are workflow suggestions you can move — they are not statutory deadlines, and statutory deadlines keep running on their own clocks regardless of the plan. The plan states this on the steps themselves.

Emailed is not served. When the plan sends a step email, it records an emailed delivery on your timeline — nothing more. Legal service exists only through the delivery method your state's rules require, done by you, with its own proof. The plan never marks a step as served, and it never checks off a signature, a notarization, a certified-mailing, or a proof-of-service action for you; those confirmations are yours to make.

The notice step's state rule packs show verified facts only — required recipients, required content, timing, permitted delivery methods, and proof requirements — each with its source and the date it was verified. Where your project state's rule pack is missing or has not completed review, the plan shows that fact and no notice wording, rather than substituting a generic template.

State law governs construction payment disputes, and a licensed attorney is the only person who can give you legal advice about your project. We are a software company — we cannot advise you.

For help finding a lawyer who handles construction payment matters in your state, contact your state bar association and ask for its lawyer referral service. LienBuild does not run a lawyer referral or matching service, does not receive compensation for pointing you to anyone, and is not a certified lawyer referral service under any state bar rule.

Where our rules come from: statutory text is sourced from each state's official legislative website and reviewed on a rolling basis. Every rule page shows the date its text was last verified. We cannot guarantee that statutes are current at every moment — confirm the current text before relying on a deadline, and consult a licensed attorney where your situation calls for it.

The statute references on this site were verified by our research team on 10/09/2026 against official state sources. That verification is research, not a legal review: no attorney has checked the text. Rules change — confirm the current official text before you rely on a date.

Where a page explains what a provision means, that explanation is our reading of the statute, and the statutory text controls. Where a rule is unsettled, differs between courts, or depends on the project type, we say so rather than state a conclusion.

Before you serve, file, or rely on a document, check it against the current law of the state where the project is located and against the filing requirements of the county where you intend to record. County formats and fee schedules change, and a clerk can reject a document that does not meet the requirement at the time you file.

The Terms of Service state what you are responsible for, and the Privacy Policy describes what we do with the information you enter.

Questions about this notice: support@lienbuild.com.