Congregants in Legal Limbo Over Who Gets the House

As 15 Virginia congregations voted to leave the Episcopal Church in recent months, both their leaders and the Episcopal bishop of Virginia, Peter Lee, said they hoped to avoid costly, bitter lawsuits over control of their property.
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Alan Cooperman and Michelle Boorstein

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