How do I make sure I own the code after delivery? — answered by Engineer Saeed Baatiah
Put it in the contract explicitly: "full intellectual property in the code and designs transfers to the client on final payment." Then enforce three practical things: the domain registered in your company’s name from day one, the hosting account in your name with access granted to the developer, and the code repository under your account. Without those three, "owning the code" is a clause on paper only.