§ 57540 Lien Assignment And Transfer

• •If someone has a lien (a legal claim on property because they're owed money), they can give that claim to someone else.
• •The person who gets the lien can then enforce it, meaning they can try to get the money they're owed.
• •The person giving away the lien must tell the Secretary of State about it, just like when you transfer ownership of something important.

Imagine you hired a contractor to fix your house, but you didn’t pay them. They put a lien on your house, meaning they have a legal claim to get their money.

The contractor can sell or give that lien to someone else, like a debt collector. That new person can then try to get the money from you. The contractor has to file paperwork with the Secretary of State to make it official.