February 2017

What Landowners Need to Know About Subcontractors: Funds-Trapping, Statutory Retainage, and Other Derivative Claims

Texas law protects not only original or general contractors; who automatically obtain a lien upon the owner’s property just by providing materials or performing labor (Tex. Const. art. XVI, § 37); but also subcontractors who the owner may never meet and who may have no contracts or business dealings whatsoever with the owner. Property owners

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