Polygamous church to negotiate trust settlement
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Lawyers for a Utah-based polygamous church are set to meet with state attorneys and a court-appointed accountant to try to negotiate a settlement over the church's property trust, which was placed under state court control nearly four years ago.
Two days of meetings at the Utah Capitol begin Wednesday.
At stake is ownership of the property and homes in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. The land is held by the United Effort Plan Trust, an arm of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The Utah attorney general's office won control of the UEP trust in 2005, convincing a district judge that church president Warren Jeffs and other leaders had mismanaged its assets.
FLDS members view the state's intervention as violation of their religious rights.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Lawyers for a Utah-based polygamous church are set to meet with state attorneys and a court-appointed accountant to try to negotiate a settlement over the church's property trust, which was placed under state court control nearly four years ago.
Two days of meetings at the Utah Capitol begin Wednesday.
At stake is ownership of the property and homes in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. The land is held by the United Effort Plan Trust, an arm of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The Utah attorney general's office won control of the UEP trust in 2005, convincing a district judge that church president Warren Jeffs and other leaders had mismanaged its assets.
FLDS members view the state's intervention as violation of their religious rights.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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