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Originally Posted by Gozer
It takes a fair amount of paperwork and proof, the burden of proof is on the liener.
You can't lien a property for no reason.
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It basically requires an affidavit and a couple other forms. The affidavit just says that you swear the attached claim is true. How truthful you are in the affidavit is up to your conscious. If you fill everything out right and don't irritate the clerks at Land Titles, you get your lien.
The person upon whose property the lien is filed can demand the person who filed the lien prove their claim. It's only at that stage, really, that the person filing the lien has to prove anything. If it turns out that their affidavit was false or that the supporting forms were inaccurate, then you risk being held liable for any costs that may have been incurred as a result of the lien being filed when it should not have.