Court may resolve church property dispute

Court may resolve church property dispute

The Court of Appeals in North Carolina has overruled a trial court and held that the trial court has jurisdiction to resolve a dispute over who owns the church property when a local church asks to disaffiliate from the national denomination.  The trial court had declined to consider the case on the ground that the issue was an ecclesiastical matter from which a civil court was required to abstain.

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