Category: Religious Institutions

How to Guard Against Fraud and Theft in Your Non-profit or Religious Organization

Every year, millions of dollars are stolen or misappropriated from […]

Dalton & Tomich wins injunction against Hinds County, Mississippi on behalf of The Church at Jackson

County’s zoning ordinance violates Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons […]

Top Five Tactics Bishops use to delay a local Methodist Church from voting on disaffiliation

When churches try to vote to leave the United Methodist […]

Three strategies used by Bishops to close local Methodist churches

The warning signs are there but churches don’t even realize […]

Defining and cleaning up membership within a local UMC prior to disaffiliation

One thing a number of churches forget to do is […]

Questions a local Methodist Church should ask before joining a denomination

Making the decision to leave the United Methodist Church is […]

The Good Book on religious property disputes is now available: Religious Property Disputes and the Law: House of God, Laws of Man, published by the American Bar Association

Detroit – August 10, 2021 – Daniel Dalton, co-founder of Detroit-headquartered […]

Frequently Asked Questions from churches looking to leave the United Methodist Denomination

When we talk to churches that want to leave the […]

Religious property attorney responds to United Methodist Church announcement to hold off general conference vote on separation protocol until 2022

“Many (UMC) churches that have been waiting on the sidelines […]

Park and pray? Church wins preliminary injunction against City of St. Pete Beach, which attempted to forbid public parking in Church’s lot

City’s punitive measures restricting religious exercise of Pass-A-Grille Beach Community […]

Hobbs Chapel Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri leaves the United Methodist Church and Keeps its Property

COLUMBIA, Mo. – December 4, 2020 – The Missouri Annual […]

From the Supreme Court to continued separations from the United Methodist Church and other traditional Protestant denominations, religion will be in the legal spotlight in 2021

Media Contacts: Barbara Fornasiero, EAFocus Communications; barbara@eafocus.com; 248.260.8466; Dan Dalton; ddalton@daltontomich.com; […]