Kent County DE Lien Filings: UCC, Tax & HOA Liens

Search Kent County, Delaware recorded lien and UCC filings by debtor, lender or document number. Get clean, structured records.

Kent County is one of Delaware's three counties and its Recorder of Deeds indexes UCC financing statements, federal tax liens, US judgments and HOA/other liens as public records. The county index is a separate source from the Delaware Secretary of State's statewide UCC filing system.

Here is one real record from this actor. document_url, document_download_url, source_page, source_url are left out of this example and included in your dataset.

{
  "record_id": "RP:331569694",
  "document_number": "545633",
  "instrument_number": "545633",
  "doc_type": "FEDERAL TAX LIEN",
  "doc_type_code": "17761",
  "doc_group": "All_70",
  "department": "RP",
  "filing_type": "federal_tax_lien",
  "filing_type_label": "Federal tax lien",
  "lien_category": "tax_lien",
  "lien_category_label": "Federal tax lien",
  "is_release": false,
  "recorded_date": "2026-10-06",
  "recorded_time": "11:42 AM",
  "instrument_date": null,
  "debtor_name": "WEGLARZ MICHAEL D",
  "debtor_names": "WEGLARZ MICHAEL D",
  "debtor_count": 1,
  "secured_party_name": "INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE",
  "secured_party_names": "INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE",
  "secured_party_count": 1,
  "grantor_name": "WEGLARZ MICHAEL D",
  "grantor_names": "WEGLARZ MICHAEL D",
  "grantee_name": "INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE",
  "grantee_names": "INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE",
  "party_direction": "grantor_debtor",
  "property_address": null,
  "legal_description": null,
  "municipality": null,
  "subdivision": null,
  "lot": null,
  "block": null,
  "parcel_numbers": null,
  "book": "RE",
  "volume": "14460",
  "page": "51",
  "book_volume_page": "RE/14460/51",
  "page_count": 2,
  "consideration": null,
  "county": "Kent",
  "state": "DE",
  "source": "Kent County Recorder of Deeds (Delaware)",
  "search_role": "secured_party",
  "search_term": "INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE",
  "search_terms": "types=tax_lien; releases=true; 2026-01-01..2026-10-21",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-21T09:15:58.445Z",
  "confidence": 0.98
}

Input | Output | Pricing

Table of contents

• What you get
• Input and filters
• Use cases
• Coverage and freshness
• Pricing
• Comparison with other Apify actors
• Related LienIntel actors
• FAQ
• Run it through the Apify API

What you get

• UCC filings: initial financing statements, continuations, amendments, assignments, partial releases, terminations and miscellaneous statements, with the debtor and secured party.
• Federal tax liens: IRS tax liens, federal tax miscellaneous filings and releases, with the taxpayer and the IRS as the lien holder.
• US judgments: judgments and transcripts recorded against a debtor, with the judgment debtor and the US Department of Justice or other federal creditor.
• HOA and other liens: condominium, homeowners association and other lien instruments with the property owner and the association or claimant.
• Document detail: document number, document type and code, recorded date and time, book/volume/page, page count, all indexed parties, legal description, subdivision, lot, block and parcel references.
• Public links: every row links back to the county search page for that document number and, when published, the recorder's document download link.

Each record can carry these 52 fields. A field the source does not publish for a record comes back as null.

Field	Type	Description
record_id	string	Unique record key: department plus recorder document id
document_number	string	Kent County recorder document number, for example 533923
instrument_number	string	Recorder instrument number when it differs from the document number
doc_type	string	Recorder document description, for example UCC, UCT or FEDERAL TAX LIEN
doc_type_code	string	Recorder index code, for example 17725, 17761 or 3000007
doc_group	string	Recorder document group, for example Financing St1 or Real Propert1
department	string	Public search department: UCC or RP
filing_type	string	Normalized filing type: ucc_initial, ucc_continuation, ucc_amendment, ucc_assignment, ucc_partial_release, ucc_termination, ucc_misc, federal_tax_lien, federal_tax_misc, federal_tax_release, judgment_lien or other_lien
filing_type_label	string	Human-readable filing type label
lien_category	string	Normalized category: ucc, tax_lien, judgment_lien or other_lien
lien_category_label	string	Human-readable category label
is_release	boolean	True for UCC terminations, UCC partial releases and federal tax releases
recorded_date	string	Recording date in YYYY-MM-DD format
recorded_time	string	Recording time as published, for example 2:14 PM
instrument_date	string	Instrument date in YYYY-MM-DD format when published
debtor_name	string	Primary debtor, property owner or taxpayer name
debtor_names	string	All debtor-side names, joined with semicolons
debtor_count	integer	Number of debtor-side names
secured_party_name	string	Primary secured party, lender, lien claimant or judgment creditor name
secured_party_names	string	All secured-party-side names, joined with semicolons
secured_party_count	integer	Number of secured-party-side names
grantor_name	string	Primary grantor name as published by the recorder
grantor_names	string	All grantor names, joined with semicolons
grantee_name	string	Primary grantee name as published by the recorder
grantee_names	string	All grantee names, joined with semicolons
party_direction	string	Party convention on the document: grantor_debtor, grantee_debtor, secured_party_transfer, mixed or claimant_heuristic
property_address	string	Property address when the recorder publishes one
legal_description	string	Legal description fields published by the recorder, joined with pipe separators
municipality	string	Municipality or city from the legal description when published
subdivision	string	Subdivision, plat or addition from the legal description when published
lot	string	Lot reference from the legal description when published
block	string	Block or section reference from the legal description when published
parcel_numbers	string	Parcel or PIN references, joined with semicolons
book	string	Book reference when published
volume	string	Volume reference when published
page	string	Page reference when published
book_volume_page	string	Book/volume/page string as published, for example UCC/00263/144
page_count	integer	Number of pages in the recorded document
consideration	string	Consideration amount as published, for example $0.00
document_url	string	Public Kent County search page for this document number
document_download_url	string	Public recorder document download link when published
county	string	County; always Kent
state	string	US state; always DE
source	string	Public source name
source_page	string	Public search department page
source_url	string	Public source URL
search_role	string	How the record matched: debtor, secured_party, document_number or new_filings
search_term	string	Party name or document number that matched this record
search_terms	string	Filters used for the run
observed_at	string	Timestamp when the record was observed
confidence	number	Confidence that the record matches the requested search
error	string	Error message when no records were returned or the run failed; error records are not charged

Input and filters

All inputs are optional.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
debtorNames	array	no	(none)	Names to search on the debtor side, up to 20. Partial names are supported, for example SMITH, MASON or PERSIMMON. Each name is searched separately and results are deduplicated.
securedPartyNames	array	no	(none)	Names to search on the secured-party side, up to 20. Partial names are supported, for example INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DAY BONNIE or PERSIMMON. Releases are also matched by the releasing party.
documentNumbers	array	no	(none)	Exact Kent County recorder document numbers, up to 20, for example 533923 or 531715.
lienTypes	array	no	["ucc", "tax_lien", "judgment_lien", "ot	Categories to include. Allowed values: ucc, tax_lien, judgment_lien, other_lien. Leave empty for all categories.
includeReleases	boolean	no	true	Include UCC terminations and partial releases and federal tax releases. Turn off to return only new liens, active filings, continuations and amendments.
dateFrom	string	no	(none)	Earliest recorded date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for the last 30 days when no search term is given, or the last 10 years when searching by name or document number.
dateTo	string	no	(none)	Latest recorded date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for today.
maxFilings	integer	no	100	Maximum number of unique lien or UCC records to return and charge. Free Apify users receive up to 10 results per run.

A working example to paste into the Input tab:

{
  "securedPartyNames": [
    "INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE"
  ],
  "lienTypes": [
    "tax_lien"
  ],
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "maxFilings": 3,
  "includeReleases": true
}

Use cases

• Review Dover-area federal tax liens, U.S. judgments and HOA liens in Kent County, Delaware.
• Equipment finance, factoring and commercial lenders: monitor competitor secured-party activity, refinances and payoffs.
• Credit, collections and recovery teams: surface federal tax liens and judgments against a debtor.
• HOA, property and title researchers: pull association liens, legal descriptions and parcel references.
• KYB, legal and due-diligence teams: confirm lien parties, document numbers, recording dates and releases.

Coverage and freshness

• Jurisdiction: Kent County, Delaware (Recorder of Deeds, public recorded-document index).
• Records: UCC financing statements and the UCC-3 chain, federal tax liens and releases, US judgments and HOA/other liens.
• Indexed fields: document number, document type and code, recorded date and time, grantor and grantee, legal description, subdivision, lot, block, parcel/PIN, book/volume/page and page count.
• Freshness: the index is the county's public recording index. Recent recordings appear as they are indexed.
• Not included: deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust, plats, military discharges and other non-lien instruments.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify prices, read on 2026-11-06.

Event	Price	When it is charged
result	$0.015	Each record delivered to your dataset
apify-actor-start	$0.003	When a run starts, once per GB of run memory with a minimum of one

At the default 512 MB, a run that delivers 100 records costs $1.503.

• Apify asks for a maximum spend of at least $0.018 per run on this actor.
• Accounts on the free Apify plan receive up to 10 results per run.
• If nothing matches or the source fails, you get one row with an error field and no result charge. The start event still applies to the run.
• Set a maximum cost per run and the actor stops delivering results when it reaches that limit.

Comparison with other Apify actors

No dedicated actor for this source on the Apify Store as of November 2026. We searched the public Store on 2026-11-06 with queries including "Kent County Delaware lien", "Kent County recorder" and "Kent County ucc", and we reviewed the listings for this source and data type. Broader actors exist: shelvick/property-deed-records searches deed and lien records from county recorder indexes. Their listings do not name this source, so we could not confirm that they cover it. Store listings change, so run the same search before you rely on this.

Related LienIntel actors

Other public LienIntel actors for the same buyer:

• Alaska Recorder UCC & Lien Filings: Debtors & Lenders: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Alaska
• Allegan County MI UCC & Lien Records Search: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Allegan County, Michigan
• Allegheny County PA UCC Filings: Debtors & Secured Parties: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
• Arapahoe County CO Lien Filings: UCC, Tax & Mechanics: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Arapahoe County, Colorado

FAQ

Does this cover the Delaware Secretary of State UCC system?

No. Data comes from the Kent County Recorder of Deeds public index. The Delaware Secretary of State's statewide UCC system is a separate source. This actor covers liens and UCC filings recorded in Kent County, including county-recorded federal tax liens, US judgments and HOA/other liens.

Can I search by secured party or lender?

Yes. Use the lender field. The actor searches the secured-party side and also matches releases where the lender is the releasing party.

Can I get only new liens and skip releases?

Yes. Turn off "Include terminations, releases and partial releases" to return only new liens, active filings, continuations and amendments.

Are federal tax liens and judgments included?

Yes. Federal tax liens, federal tax releases, US judgments and HOA/other liens are separate categories in the same dataset.

Does a record include the property?

Where the county publishes it, yes: legal description, subdivision, lot, block and parcel/PIN. Property street addresses are returned when the recorder indexes one.

Why are some HOA/other liens marked claimant_heuristic?

Kent's public index publishes the same names on both the grantor and grantee side for those instruments. The actor identifies the association or condo claimant by name and treats the remaining names as the property owner. The raw grantor and grantee lists are always included so you can verify the record.

Is this a consumer credit report?

No. This is public-record research for business and legal due diligence.

Run it through the Apify API

Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lienintel~kent-county-de-lien-filings/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"securedPartyNames": ["INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE"], "lienTypes": ["tax_lien"], "dateFrom": "2026-01-01", "maxFilings": 3, "includeReleases": true}'

With the Apify CLI:

$apify call lienintel/kent-county-de-lien-filings --input '{"securedPartyNames": ["INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE"], "lienTypes": ["tax_lien"], "dateFrom": "2026-01-01", "maxFilings": 3, "includeReleases": true}'

Every run writes to a dataset that you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Storage tab or through the Apify API.

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LienIntel is an independent data provider and is not affiliated with any government office named on this page. Records are public and are provided for research and workflow automation. This is not a certified search and not a consumer report under the FCRA.