New Mexico 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

Instrument or document number on your recorded lien

Date the lien was recorded

This instrument says the debt is paid.

New Mexico 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: County Clerk. The county clerk — New Mexico does not use "recorder" — of the county where the claim was recorded, indexed as deeds are indexed (§ 48-2-8).

None. The "ten day rule with damages" that appears on national charts could not be verified and appears to be wrong. § 48-7-5's release penalty reaches only § 48-7-4 mortgages and deeds of trust and carries no day count; § 48-2A-11's felony is for misapplying construction proceeds, not for failing to release. Both are unsettled if argued here.