- FLDS trust case
- Sep 9:
- FLDS appeals trust rulings to Utah Supreme Court
- Aug 24:
- Disputed FLDS farm sale approved by judge
- Jul 29:
- Judge postpones ruling, but may favor sealed-bid sale of polygamous sect's farm
- Jul 28:
- FLDS controversy: Judge to take up sale of polygamous sect's farmland
- Jul 22:
- Utah judge rejects proposed deals on FLDS trust
- Jul 16:
- FLDS fiduciary defends cow sale decision
- Jul 1:
- FLDS attorneys: Fiduciary's proposal violates sect's beliefs
- Fiduciary rejects FLDS land trust settlement proposal
- Jun 17:
- FLDS property fiduciary pleads not guilty in trespass case
- FLDS: Court-appointed manager for polygamous sect's trust pleads not guilty
- Jun 15:
- FLDS: Settlement offered in 4-year polygamous sect property dispute
The key witness in the 2007 criminal trial of polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs is offering to settle the multimillion dollar lawsuit she filed against a communal church trust.
The proposal filed in 3rd District Court by attorneys for Elissa Wall seeks $308,375 in cash, 21 acres of undeveloped land and two developed lots from the United Effort Plan Trust.
The trust is an arm of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and holds the land and homes in Hildale, Utah and Colorado City., Ariz.
A former FLDS member, Wall filed her lawsuit in 2005, seeking compensation for her 2001 marriage, which was arranged by church leaders when she was just 14. In the lawsuit, Wall sought unspecified damages, including $1 million to establish a fund for those who want to leave the FLDS church. He proposal was quietly filed in court last week.
Wall's sexual relationship with her 19-year-old husband was the basis for the charges filed against Jeffs. A jury convicted Jeffs of two counts of first-degree felony rape as an accomplice in 2007.
Allegations of mismanagement of the UEP by Jeffs and other church leaders was grounds for the Utah courts to seize the $114 million property trust in 2005.
A court-appointed accountant countersued Wall in March saying the trust was not responsible for her forced marriage.
All trust litigation is on hold as UEP attorneys, the FLDS and the attorneys general of Utah and



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