A swath of farmland on the Utah-Arizona border has become the subject of the latest legal war involving the polygamous sect. FLDS members Willie Jessop, Dan Johnson and Merlin Jessop are seeking to halt plans by the court-appointed special fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust to sell Berry Knoll.

If a proposed sale of Berry Knoll Farm is allowed to proceed, it will divest the FLDS Church of one of its most sacred sites and place it in the hands of a rival religious group, three sect members allege.

Members of a polygamous sect contend a court-ordered reorganization of their property trust violated their constitutional rights and are suing to reverse the changes or regain control of the trust.

In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed Monday, members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints argue that changes to the United Effort Plan Trust since a court takeover in 2005 have secularized it, violating their religious freedoms.

Attorneys representing 16 FLDS members have filed an action a farm was seized by a court-appointed fiduciary overseeing the United Effort Plan Trust without recognizing their lifetime right to work and live there.

If Bruce R. Wisan, who has overseen the UEP Trust since 2005, proceeds with a plan to sell the farm, they want proceeds turned over to them as compensation for those contributions. They also claim Wisan improperly evicted them from their homes at the farm after they refused to work for him.

The state’s takeover of a polygamous community’s property trust has simply replaced one feudal system with another, several residents told a Utah judge Wednesday.

In an amended complaint filed Monday in 3rd District Court, Elissa Wall alleges that Jeffs, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, trustees and participants in its United Effort Plan Trust all knew about illegal marriages in the sect but did nothing to stop them.

Attorneys for a jailed polygamous church leader are objecting to subpoenas seeking papers seized from a Cadillac Escalade during his arrest last year.

The Fundamentalist LDS Church’s United Effort Plan Trust is destined to never be the same again. A judge in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court signed an order late Wednesday, reforming the $110 million dollar trust.

Changes to the United Efforts Plan trust will remove the stranglehold of the FLDS cult over its members.

A court-appointed fiduciary is fighting polygamous FLDS sect leader Warren S. Jeffs’ efforts to get back items found with him when he was captured last month.

The capture of polygamous leader Warren S. Jeffs could accelerate settlement talks involving three civil lawsuits that target his sect's communal property trust.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A judge on Wednesday ordered nearly $320,000 in fees be paid by the trust of a southern Utah polygamist sect to attorneys and an accountant court-ordered to manage its assets.

'Lost Boys': A group alleges that Warren Jeffs forced marriages on some, ostracized others

SALT LAKE CITY -- A judge on Wednesday outlined a plan for reforming the trust of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and appointed a six-member advisory board to temporarily assist a court-appointed accountant.

Fugitive polygamist leader Warren Jeffs hasn't been seen by outsiders for years, but it appears he's still calling the shots and pulling the strings on matters affecting the interests of thousands of people. That came out in court today as a judge approved a controversial real estate deal.

$2M offer has been accepted by Utah corporation

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