ABC Notice Requirements: What Must Be Filed and Where

California law has specific requirements for recording and publishing notice of an ABC. These requirements exist to protect creditors who may not be in direct contact with the business and to establish the official record of the assignment date.

Recording and Publication

The Assignment Deed must be recorded with the county recorder in the county where the business is located. Notice of the assignment must be published in a newspaper of general circulation in that county. These steps establish the public record and start the clock on the claims bar date. Assignees who fail to complete these steps properly expose the assignment to challenge.

Publication provides constructive notice to creditors not personally notified. While the assignee must send direct notice to all known creditors, publication provides notice to creditors whose identities or addresses aren’t in the business records. A creditor who later claims they didn’t know about the assignment but who could have learned about it from the published notice is generally bound by the bar date.

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