§ 153A-203. Lien in favor of a cotenant or joint owner paying special assessments. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 153A‑203.  Lienin favor of a cotenant or joint owner paying special assessments.

Any one of several tenants in common or joint tenants (other thancopartners) may pay the whole or any part of a special assessment made againstproperty held in common or jointly. Any amount so paid that exceeds his shareof the assessment and that was not paid through agreement with or on behalf ofthe other joint owners is a lien in his favor upon the shares of the otherjoint owners. This lien may be enforced in a proceeding for actual partition, aproceeding for partition and sale, or by any other appropriate judicialproceeding. This lien is not effective against an innocent purchaser for valueuntil notice of the lien is filed in the office of the clerk of superior courtin the county in which the land lies and indexed and docketed in the samemanner as other liens required by law to be filed in that clerk's office. (1963, c. 985, s. 1; 1965, c. 714; 1973, c. 822, s.1.)