<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Forgive not including the chain of excellent comments below, I'm on digest and did not want to inundate with the full digest chain ....</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">But I wanted to echo Tom's analysis. I think any lien that does not have to do with rights to title (easement, adverse possession, real estate contract, etc.) is not an appropriate basis for a lis pendens. Anything that is a claim that <i>in and of itself</i> affects the scope of someone's rights to property is a claim dealing with title. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The lien itself might impact title in a technical way, but only in sense of saying the property is encumbered by </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><i>a financial obligation. </i></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">that's not what the statute contemplates. It is not a dispute as to extent of or rights in title someone may have.</span> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">And - why risk it? If there is a recorded lien, there is notice to the world, and will run with the property. A lis pendens is redundant, and risks attorney's fees etc. I once obtained a judgment for a client covering nearly $17,000 in attorney's fees (every dime incurred) challenging a lis pendens inappropriately filed. Different facts, but same legal principles discussed here. I just don't see the value. 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