Legal Adviser: Making Sure You Get Paid

When it comes to getting money out of a client who can’t or won’t pay for the work you’ve done, you can do something that other creditors can’t. You can use your construction lien rights — if you give the right kind of notices and meet all the required deadlines (see Legal Adviser, 5/01). In addition to those rights, which could allow you to foreclose on the client’s property, you can use the same remedies that any other kind of creditor can. But you probably don’t want to do any of that. You don’t want to sue your client, and you don’t want to enforce your lien rights — you just want to get paid. Is there