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Alabama UCC search

The Alabama Secretary of State (UCC filing office) keeps Alabama's UCC filings: the notices lenders file to claim a business's assets. Search them by business and see each filing's status, dates and parties, with the source on every result.

What Alabama's UCC records include

The fields a Clerkfield lien search returns for Alabama.

  • File number, filing type and original filing date
  • Status and expiration (lapse) date as shown by the state
  • Debtor and lender (secured party) names with addresses
  • Current lender plus any earlier lender replaced by an assignment
  • Every later filing (assignment, continuation, amendment, termination) with its date
  • Filing type label for non-business liens, such as federal or state tax liens

Not in Alabama's free records

Nothing we know of: the free records carry every field listed here.

Search by lender

Not in Alabama: search by the business's name.

How to search Alabama UCC filings by hand

The state's own search is at arc-sos.state.al.us. The Secretary of State's own online search is free. Searching through the Alabama Interactive portal instead is paid: the state's rules add a $9.75 access fee to each electronic UCC transaction.

  1. On sos.alabama.gov, open Government Records, then UCC Records.
  2. Choose the search by name (you can also search by file number, filing date or month).
  3. Type the start of the debtor's name and leave the filing type on all types.
  4. Click a file number to see the status, expiration date and every filing made against it since.

Alabama specifics

01

The free search is the Secretary of State's. The Alabama Interactive portal charges per search for the same records.

02

Federal and state tax liens, child support liens and other non-UCC liens share the same index, with a filing type you can filter on.

03

Party addresses on the state's pages are cut short at about 35 characters.

04

The office may remove a filing from the index one year after it lapses.

Check the business behind the lien

Before you rely on a lien search, confirm the business is registered and active in Alabama.

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Frequently asked questions.

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  • Yes. The Secretary of State's own search by name, file number or filing date is free. The paid route is the Alabama Interactive portal, which adds per-search fees.

  • Yes. Federal and state tax liens, child support liens and other lien types are in the same index. Each has its own filing type, so you can search one type or all.

  • It is the date the filing lapses unless continued. Each continuation pushes it out, and the detail page shows the updated date.

  • The office's rules let it remove a filing one year after lapse, so older lapsed liens may no longer appear.

  • Yes. The rules set $1,500 for a full data extract without images and $300 for each weekly update.