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Churches Corporate Governance

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In Determining Whether A Corporation Qualifies As A Religious Corporation, Words Speak Louder Than Actions.

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California readers most likely are aware of the fact that California's nonprofit corporate law is triadic.  Thus, it possible to organize a nonprofit corporation as a public benefit corporation, a mutual benefit corporation...more

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This Corporation Was Harmed Even Before It Was Incorporated!

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The Church of the Celestial Heart is a California nonprofit religious corporation seeks to import and use a sacramental tea.  It so happens that this tea, which is also called Daime or ayahuasca, carries trace amounts of a...more

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Nonprofit Corporations Need Not File One Of These . . .

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Section 17910 of the California Business & Professions Code requires every person who regularly transacts business in California for profit under a fictitious business name to file a fictitious business name statement. ...more

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Corporations Code Saves Church Property

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The  AME Zion Church of Palo Alto, Inc. was founded in 1918 and has occupied its sanctuary for over a half century.  In 2018, the Bishop of the Western Episcopal District of The African Method Episcopal Zion Church importuned...more

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