Kansas Lien Release

The Lien You Are Releasing

Pull your stamped copy of the lien — everything on this page is on it. If the details here do not match the instrument on record, the release does not release it, and no one at the counter will catch that for you.

Which county is the property in?Property addressTax parcel ID — if it is on the lienRecord owner of the property

File or case number the office gave your lien

Date the lien was recorded

This instrument says the debt is paid.

Kansas has no statute prescribing this instrument, so what it says is what binds you. Signing it while money is still owed puts a false statement on the public record and gives away the security you filed to protect. If you have been paid part of it, this is not the document you want — talk to a construction attorney about what is.

The debt secured by this lien has been paid in full.

Where this gets filed: Clerk of the District Court. THE COURT, NOT THE REGISTER OF DEEDS. K.S.A. 60-1102 filed the lien with the clerk of the district court, who indexed it by party names and file number. Recording a release with the register of deeds leaves the court index open and the title clouded.

None. No deadline, no per-diem, no fee-shifting. You may see K.S.A. 58-2309a cited for this — the 20-day mortgage-satisfaction demand with its $500 penalty and fees. Read it: it speaks only of a mortgagee, a mortgage and the register of deeds, and applying it to a district-court mechanics lien is an argument by analogy rather than law, and unsettled. The owner's only real lever is a § 60-1108 petition, where the court may tax costs against the claimant.