You rent a small storage unit in Santa Monica—just a few boxes of old memories, maybe furniture, a surfboard, that treadmill you swore you’d use again. Months go by. One payment slipped. Then another.

Ernesto ran a towing yard in East LA. On a hot July morning, he muttered about how to file a lien sale in California while staring at a rusty Civic. Someone dumped the car in his lot four months ago ...

I am often approached by contractors who wish to file a construction lien regarding either a residential or a commercial project. It is not atypical for many of these contractors to believe that ...