A Guide to Church Property Law Second Edition

“A Guide to Church Property Law: Second Edition” is a must read for every mainline church pastor, officer and trustee – and their legal counsel. The guide helps in navigating the troubled waters surrounding potential court disputes over local church property ownership and use.

Leading scholars, theologians and attorneys from the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Methodist Church and the Episcopal Church (USA), experienced in advising on church property issues, have collaborated to create this timely and useful volume. This second edition contains many new features. Key chapters have been updated with the latest legal and ecclesiastical developments, and several new chapters have been added.

Helpful appendices and editor’s notes have also been included: local church forms, noteworthy trial court opinions, sample court judgments, law journal articles, and outstanding briefs recently submitted to state supreme courts and to the United States Supreme Court, authored by some of America’s top attorneys.