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Religious Institutions Defined Benefit Plans

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The New Principal (Purpose Organization) Question in the Ongoing Church Plan Litigation: Does the Committee “Maintain” the Plan? -...

Last year, in Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a special type of “church plan,” intended to be exempt from Title I of ERISA and many Internal Revenue Code requirements, does not...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

SCOTUS Church Plan Ruling Ends the Battle But Not the War: What Church-Affiliated Church Plan Sponsors Need to Know and Do Now

The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that employee benefit plans sponsored by certain church-affiliated organizations do not have to be established by a church to be considered a “church plan,” which is exempt...more

Franczek P.C.

U.S. Supreme Court to Consider ERISA Church Plan Exemption

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In a decision that may have profound consequences for the funding and continued operation of defined benefit retirement plans covering employees at religiously affiliated organizations, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Religious Institutions Update - Lex Est Sanctio Sancta

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"Church plans" are pension plans (including defined benefit or defined contribution plans) exempt (without an irrevocable election) from many of the legal requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...more

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