The Rules are Changing0

• Legally Speaking
• November 2, 2026

By Leslie A. Boe, Dysart Taylor McMonigle Brumitt & Wilcox, P.C. The construction contract has always been the subcontractor’s rulebook, and it still is.  If the subcontract said you wouldn’t be paid until the owner paid the general, you waited.  If it said you waived your lien rights, or that your retainage would sit until