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Local laws in Fulton and DeKalb Counties concerning property record filing requirements were passed recently by the Georgia Legislature and are now impacting all manner of property record filings, including common construction documents such as liens and affidavits of Nonpayment.

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Florida recently updated the Florida Prompt Payment Law, section 218.735, Fla. Stat., to provide for a much higher interest rate on amounts that are wrongfully withheld from downstream contractors and to put the offending party’s licensure at risk for violating the law.

This is another in a long line of examples of a Court holding that if a party wishes to enforce their contract, they must comply with the contract throughout the project, and can’t lean on the contract for the first time after a lawsuit is filed.

For the third consecutive year, Hudson Lambert Parrott has been ranked by Construction Executive as one of its Top 50 Construction Law Firms™ nationally and among the very top in the Southeast.

After the Federal Transportation Authority (“FTA”) issued a debarment decision banning contractor from federal government work because of past alleged actions, HLPW attorneys challenged the decision by presenting evidence establishing that the contractor is “presently responsible.”

On January 1, 2021 the bipartisan Georgia lien law amendment goes into effect. This reflects the effective date of Senate Bill 315, which was signed into law by Governor Kemp in August 2020.

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Governor Kemp signed Senate Bill 315 into law, which amends the Georgia statutory lien waiver form and clarifies that a lien waiver will only waive lien and bond rights – not substantive rights to payment under a construction contract

In the short term, the necessity of timely affidavits of non-payment cannot be understated.

HLPW continues the standard of excellence of HarperLambert and HudsonParrottWalker, which ranked in the top 50 nationally and among the very top in the Southeast by Construction Executive, an industry-leading publication by Associated Builders and Constructors.