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Daughter lacks standing based on inherited shares of nonprofit

Daughter lacks standing based on inherited shares of nonprofit

Daughter lacks standing based on inherited shares of nonprofit

The daughter of the sole shareholder of a nonprofit church corporation who inherits shares in the corporation from her father’s estate does not have a sufficient interest to create standing to sue her brother for embezzlement from the church, a federal District Court in Kansas has ruled. Marina Boyd sued her brother Orin Boyd, Jr. for embezzlement after he took over the church their father founded. He had assumed the role of president and pastor after their father’s death. Marina claimed standing because she had inherited shares in the church corporation, which had been divided equally among the father’s six children in his estate. Her brother moved to dismiss the complaint for lack of...

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