User:Loquitor/United Effort Plan Trust

The United Effort Plan Trust (UEP) is a Utah public, charitable trust originally organized in 1942 by Rulon Jeffs, the former leader of a fundamentalist Mormon polygamous sect known as the FLDS. The UEP was thereafter amended and restated in 1998 in response to a Utah Supreme Court ruling that was disfavorsble to the FLDS sect. The Utah Supreme Court had found that the UEP at that time had the characteristics of a private trust with specifically identifiable beneficiaries. The ruling allowed former members to be fairly compensated for their contributions and improvements to UEP property, even though the former members were no longer a part of the UEP's beneficiary class. (cite Chatwin, Stubbs). In response to the Utah Supreme Court's ruling, the UEP was amended and restated so as to transform the trust from a private trust into a public charitable trust.

In 2005, the Attorney General for the State of Utah petitioned the probate court to take control of the administration of the UEP due to mismanagement by the Trustees of the UEP at that time. The Trustees were removed for breaches of fiduciary duty, and the Court appointed a Special Fiduciary to perform limited administrative functions of the UEP Trust. The Special Fiduciary's powers of administration were thereafter expanded by the Court, and an advisory board was established to assist and counsel the Special Fiduciary.