Section 1.2 An Overview of the Lien Process

• Jurisdiction: Arizona

The law requires that every person (except for a person performing actual labor for wages) who furnishes labor, professional services, materials, machinery, fixtures or tools to a construction project give written notice, called a preliminary twenty-day notice, of their statutory lien rights to the owner, construction lender, original contractor, and the person with whom the claimant has contracted. The importance of the preliminary twenty-day notice is that it offers all interested parties, including lenders, the opportunity to become fully aware of every other party possessing potential lien rights against the property. Only if a potential lienholder has timely and correctly filed a preliminary twenty-day notice may...