Shared questions. State-specific answers.
We organize research around a shared set of questions: the property, parties, contract, work, notice, claim, payment and release. Related patterns help group the research. Each state record holds the jurisdiction-specific sources, exceptions, confidence and open questions.
LienGuardian’s existing national research map uses three indexes: notice architecture, closing-document patterns, and amount/homestead questions. Those are research-routing labels. A similarity between states is a reason to investigate, not permission to reuse a form, deadline or legal conclusion.
Four layers, four different responsibilities.
- Official authority: statutes, regulations, court decisions and official recording requirements. Follow the primary source and confirm currency.
- Research packets: working notes, taxonomies and comparisons. Preserve confidence levels, contradictions and unresolved issues.
- Public reference: plain-language explanation with traceable citations, scope, review status and gaps.
- Application rules: separately reviewed logic with its own approval, versioning and tests. Publishing an article never activates a rule.
What a review label means.
Official-source directory means a source starting point is listed. Editorial draft means an explanation is being reviewed privately. Unapproved articles are not published in this directory. Neither label means attorney-approved, legally complete or available in the application.
Link accessibility checks establish only whether a URL responded during review. They do not validate legal accuracy, currentness or completeness. Some government portals limit automated access.
A retrieved statutory text, a historical enacted act, an amendment index, government guidance and a proposed bill are different evidence. We label their scope separately. A page count or scenario count does not measure current-law coverage or legal approval. Source limitations and unanswered questions stay with the underlying research until an article is ready for publication.
What we do not infer.
- A calendar number without its event, exceptions and legal context.
- A valid lien from a recorded document.
- Legal service from a postal delivery event alone.
- Nationwide application support from nationwide source links.
- Attorney review from a packet prepared for an attorney.
Before a guide is published.
Confirm the jurisdiction and scope, current official sources, section-level support for material claims, unresolved contradictions, legal-review status and editorial ownership. Any deadline or eligibility claim requires its own documented review before inclusion.