Florida Small Claims Court Limits raised to $8,000.00 for 2020
Florida Small Claims Court Limits raised to $8,000.00 for 2020 and the details are available at the following link. Details Here
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Florida Notice of Nonpayment new statutory form required October 1, 2019
Urgent Notice to all Florida Notice to Owner Customers On June 7, 2019, Governor Desantis signed HB 1247 (Chapter 2019-94, Laws of Florida). The bill mandates a new statutory form for a Notice of Nonpayment on both public and private bonded projects. In order to preserve and protect your right to a claim against a […]
Latest Florida Supreme Court Holding on Unlicensed Contractor’s Lack of Rights to Enforce Contract
NACM South Atlantic Members, I thought our members would be interested in reading the attached Florida Supreme Court case which is absolutely definitive as the fact that an unlicensed contractor has no rights to defend or recover under its contract, even when the other party to the contract is aware of or condones the fact that the […]
Legislature Addresses Lack Of Recorded Bonds For Public Projects
By Deborah Lawson, Governmental Affairs Consultant Best estimates are that 40-50 percent of all bonds for public construction projects are not properly recorded in the public records as required by statute. The 2012 Legislature acknowledged this deficiency and imposed a penalty on the general contractor for failure to record the payment and performance bond(s). HB […]
Florida Voters Will Have Long Ballots to Complete on Election Day
Brace yourself; did you know there are eleven amendments on the November ballot? Two deal with religious freedom, two address veterans issues, one on public funding of abortions, one on health services, one on the state courts, four dealing with taxes and homestead exemptions and one on the college/university system. All of the amendments were […]