Frequently Asked Questions

A drafting tool that turns your facts into statutory notices for landlords and construction contractors, each anchored to a real, current California code section with its citation. StatuteFlow is not a law firm and does not give legal advice — you choose the document and stay responsible for its accuracy, exactly as self-represented filers do.

Creating cases and entering facts is free, and every document shows its complete text in preview before you pay anything. You only spend money when you unlock the court-ready PDF — $29.99 one-off, or one unit of a subscription.

No. Landlords and contractors serve these notices themselves every day, and the forms are written for non-lawyers. If the matter becomes contested — the tenant answers, the owner's attorney calls — bring in a licensed attorney; every generated document says so too.

Unpaid rent → 3-Day Notice to Pay or Quit. Ending a month-to-month tenancy → 30/60-Day termination, and under AB 1482 a just cause is required once the tenant has a year there. A fixable lease violation → 3-Day Notice to Perform or Quit. The guided intake chooses from your facts, not a dropdown of jargon.

Since SB 385 (2024), the 3-day pay-or-quit period counts court business days — weekends and judicial holidays are excluded. Miscounting voids the notice, so the form computes the expiration date for you and states the counting method on the document.

No — the notice is the prerequisite, not the unlawful detainer complaint. What you unlock is the court-ready notice PDF plus a service packet with proof-of-service declarations for each delivery method California accepts (personal, substitute + mail, posting + mail).

If they paid in full inside the statutory period, the notice is satisfied and you cannot proceed on it. Corrected or follow-up documents regenerate free within 14 days in the same case — notices die most often on dates and amounts, and fixing those is included.

Direct contract with an owner over $25,000? Send the preliminary notice within 20 days of first work. Even if you are exempt, the lien itself must be recorded within 90 days after completion or you lose it. The guided form asks for contract size and role and tells you which clock you are on.

Yes — the 30/60/90-day windows depend on your role and whether a notice of cessation is posted. The intake adjusts required fields to your role so the document reflects your actual deadline, not the general one.

Six months to enforce from recording (CCP § 8410(a)), extendable by a court petition for up to four more months, and credit agreements or partial payments toll the clock. The generated lien notice prints your enforcement date so you cannot miss it.

Liens still exist for unpaid work under implied contracts — but proving scope and value gets much easier with documents. The intake lets you describe the work and payment history so the notice states what was performed and what remains owed.

A curated California statute library maintained in our own database — real code sections with section numbers, effective dates and quoted text. Retrieval pulls exact provisions before drafting, and the model writes only from the retrieved law.

Three things: the model only sees retrieved statutes (not its memory), output is validated against the citation set before you see it, and if retrieval finds nothing the generation fails loudly with no charge instead of producing a plausible-looking document.

Tell support — corrections to affected documents are free within 14 days of purchase, and the statute library carries version history so we can show which law a document was drafted under. You should still verify the citation before filing; the documents say so.

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Yes — rollover is on by default up to twice your monthly quota, and carried units are used first before they expire at the next month's end. Downgrading or cancelling clears rollover, so use it up before you drop a tier.

We ask before we charge: a confirmation shows your plan's discounted overage rate ($24.99 on Basic, $19.99 on Pro) and the document generates only after you confirm. No silent per-unit billing, no surprise month-end statement.

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A generated PDF is digital content delivered in full — after that the purchase is final, the same rule stated in the Refund Policy. Before generation, one-off purchases are refundable for 14 days; if a document is rejected for a drafting or formatting defect we fix it free or refund it.

It applies fully until you ask us to generate. Before the first document of a purchase, you see the Article 16(m) consent-and-acknowledgement checkbox: consent to immediate delivery, acknowledge the right is lost for that document, and the record is kept in your billing history. Unused periods of subscriptions remain refundable pro-rata.

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Only you. Every query enforces ownership, session cookies are httpOnly, data is encrypted at rest, and staff access requires an admin role that is separate from normal accounts.

You are the controller for the personal data you enter; use it only as the statute requires and handle served documents with care. Your tenant can also contact us directly: our Privacy Policy gives third parties a route to ask for review of their data in a case.

No. Case facts go to the model provider only to draft your document, provider agreements prohibit retention beyond processing and forbid training on your data, and template-only paths are preferred whenever they suffice.

Delete cases any time from your account. Closing the account removes case facts and documents within 90 days; billing records stay 10 years because tax law requires it, and backups cycle off in 35 days.

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