What information is provided for Liens and Judgments?

Baselayer supports UCC, judgment, and federal, state, and local tax lien searches, including lien-document retrieval where the state makes the document available. We return both active and resolved liens, including resolution status, so you can identify satisfied or closed liens and reduce false positives from stale records.

There is no date cutoff. A lien search returns every filing on record for the searched name in the searched states, and paid-off, lapsed, or terminated liens still appear with their status and lapse date so you have the full history.

Lien fields include:

• State

• Filing number

• Filing type (UCC, judgment, federal / state / local tax, etc.)

• Filing date and lapse date

• Status (Active, Lapsed, Terminated, and other resolution statuses)

• Debtor and secured party names and addresses

• Amendments (continuations, terminations, assignments, and other UCC-3 actions)

• Collateral type and collateral statements

• Lien amount for tax liens

• Source document, where available

A few notes on how results are structured:

• UCC-3s are never returned as standalone records. Every amendment is listed under the amendments field of the UCC-1 it modifies.

• If the secured party on a filing was masked when it was filed, the lien is still returned, with the masked party shown as such in the secured parties.

• Each filing carries search_entity_name and search_entity_type (Business or Person), so you can tell whether it matched the business itself or an officer you added to the search.