South Carolina 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

Book the lien was recorded in

Page the lien was recorded at

Date the lien was recorded

This instrument says the debt is paid.

S.C. Code Ann. § 29-5-430 discharges the lien on satisfaction of the debt. 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: Register of Deeds (or Clerk of Court in a county with no register). Record it where the lien statement was recorded — the Register of Deeds for the county the property is in. That is a different office from North Carolina, which uses the Clerk of Superior Court, and it is the mistake to watch for if you work in both states.

Section 29-5-430 sets no deadline and imposes no penalty. You may see the mortgage-satisfaction penalty in § 29-3-320 cited for this. Read it: it is written for the "holder of record of a mortgage", and whether it reaches a statutory mechanics lien is an argument rather than settled law. We found no South Carolina decision either way. Do not put it in a demand letter as though a court had already agreed.