Stop-Notice - Georgia

NOTICE OF UNPAID CONSTRUCTION CLAIM

Voluntary Payment-Resolution Request — Georgia

This document does not freeze project funds or preserve a lien. Use it
only to communicate identified facts and request a voluntary response while
counsel separately prepares every required statutory or contractual document.

1. Project and Claimant Screen

2. Unpaid-Claim Record

Total claimed unpaid: $[________________________________]

Reconciliation

Do not add a percentage reserve, attorney fees, interest, penalties, costs, or
other sums unless the contract or current law independently supports them and
counsel approves the calculation.

3. Recipient and Delivery Plan

This form creates no certified-mail, overnight-delivery, personal-service,
three-business-day receipt, notarization, or acknowledgment rule. Select a
method after reviewing the contract and the purpose of this communication.

4. Proposed Notice

Date: [__/__/____]

To: [RECIPIENT NAME AND ADDRESS]

Copy to: [________________________________]

Project: [________________________________]

Claimant: [________________________________]

Direct contracting party: [________________________________]

Dear [________________________________]:

Claimant states that it furnished the labor, services, equipment, or materials
identified in the attached account for the Project and that
$[________________________________] remains unpaid as of [__/__/____].
The supporting contract and payment records are identified in Section 7.

Claimant requests that the recipients:

1. review the attached account and identify any factual or contractual dispute;
2. identify the person responsible for payment resolution;

3. state whether additional records are reasonably needed to evaluate the
   claim;

4. preserve relevant project, payment, notice, and communication records under
   each recipient's independently determined obligations; and

5. consider a voluntary payment, joint check, escrow, written payment plan,
   surety review, or other resolution approved by all necessary parties and
   counsel.

This notice does not represent that a recipient must withhold, segregate, or
redirect funds. It does not make the recipient a guarantor, trustee,
stakeholder, indemnitor, or contracting party and does not concede the claim's
validity, amount, priority, or enforceability.

Please respond by [REQUESTED DATE / NO FIXED DATE] through
[CONTACT AND METHOD]. The requested date is a communication target, not a
statement of a statutory cure or forfeiture period.

Sincerely,

[CLAIMANT LEGAL NAME]

By: __________________________________

Name and title: [________________________________]

Date: [__/__/____]

5. Separate Legal-Remedy Screen

This notice is not a substitute for any potentially applicable instrument or
proceeding. Counsel must separately determine:

Leaving this table incomplete does not extend a deadline or preserve a right.
Do not describe this notice as the instrument listed in a row.

6. Resolution Workspace

Any resolution must state whether payment is conditional or final and address
the exact claim, releases or waivers, allocation, taxes, fees, lien or bond
filings, pending proceedings, confidentiality, authority, signatures, and
delivery. This notice itself supplies none of those terms.

7. Attachments

• ☐ contract, subcontract, purchase order, or relevant excerpts
• ☐ invoices, pay applications, ledger, and payment record
• ☐ approved and disputed change orders
• ☐ delivery tickets, time records, photographs, or completion records
• ☐ correspondence concerning scope, approval, deficiency, or payment
• ☐ relevant notices and delivery proof
• ☐ filed lien, bond, court, or public-record document, if separately verified
• ☐ license or registration record, if relevant
• ☐ other: [________________________________]

8. Boundaries

This notice does not itself:

• compel an owner, lender, contractor, surety, escrow, or other recipient to
  withhold, freeze, segregate, or pay money;

• create a 25-percent reserve, 115-percent or 125-percent bond, interest-bearing
  account, trust, lien, priority, or security interest;

• perfect, extend, amend, enforce, release, waive, or discharge a lien or bond
  claim;

• create default, cure, injunction, specific-performance, interest,
  attorney-fee, penalty, damages, or cost rights;

• impose indemnity, defense, insurance, liability-cap, force-majeure,
  assignment, arbitration, jury, forum, or electronic-signature terms;

• establish a statutory delivery, receipt, response, release, or payment
  deadline; or

• bind a recipient by receipt, silence, acknowledgment, or signature on a
  delivery record.

All rights, defenses, duties, deadlines, and remedies remain controlled by the
actual contracts, current law, governing project rules, and facts.

9. Delivery Record

I certify only that the notice and listed attachments were delivered as
recorded below. This record does not establish legal service or recipient
assent.

Prepared by: [________________________________]

Signature: __________________________________

Date: [__/__/____]

Final Review

• ☐ claimant, project, property, contract chain, work, amount, credits, and
  dates verified

• ☐ recipients and delivery purpose verified without implying a statutory
  freeze

• ☐ current Georgia lien, bond, notice, filing, service, licensing, and remedy
  rules checked separately from official sources

• ☐ every potentially applicable deadline independently calendared

• ☐ no fixed percentage reserve, private bond amount, deemed receipt, cure,
  release, fee, indemnity, cap, or injunction remains

• ☐ notice, legal filings, releases, waivers, and settlement documents kept
  separate

• ☐ statements and attachments supported by identified records

Reviewing Georgia attorney: [________________________________]

Review date: [__/__/____]