A notice of completion (or notice of cessation) is a recorded document that officially marks a project's end — and in states that use it, it typically SHORTENS your lien deadline, sometimes drastically: California's 90-day window drops to 60 days for GCs and 30 for subs once one is recorded.
Owners file them precisely to start that shorter clock. If you learn one was recorded on your project, treat it as a fire alarm: recompute every deadline from the recording date immediately. This is exactly the kind of event LienWarden's monitoring is built to catch.
General education, not legal advice — lien law is state-specific and changes. For your state's exact windows, use the free deadline calculator; for anything contested, talk to a construction attorney.
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