LEGAL Archives - Page 29 of 31

Should churches and ministries care about trademarks?

Posted by admin

July 1, 2011 at 9:00 am.

“A good name is more desirable than great riches,” says Proverbs 22:1 but it takes an effort to keep it that way.

Home(s) sweet home(s): Update on housing allowances

Posted by admin

March 1, 2011 at 9:00 am.

Most pastors are probably familiar with the provision in the Tax Code that allows pastors and ministers to exempt a parsonage, or housing allowance from their taxable income.

The unthinkable: Responding to sexual abuse allegations

Posted by admin

January 3, 2011 at 9:00 am.

Churches spend considerable amounts of time and effort to put in place policies and procedures designed to prevent occurrences of child abuse within their ministries.

Right now is a great time for next year’s tax planning for pastors

Posted by admin

November 1, 2010 at 9:00 am.

Though current year tax planning often occurs at year-end, this is an even better time for “Next Year” tax planning.

‘Dangling the carrot of subsidy’

Posted by admin

October 1, 2010 at 9:00 am.

The United States Supreme Court on June 28, 2010, decided the case of Christian Legal Society, Hastings College of the Law v. Martinez.

The legal duty to disclose information to a congregation

Posted by admin

October 1, 2010 at 9:00 am.

The congregation doesn’t have to know everything about church operations.

Health care reform impacts churches as employers

Posted by admin

September 1, 2010 at 10:23 am.

As employers, churches are significantly affected by the new health care reform legislation.

How the new healthcare reform act may affect congregations

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churches, congregations, contributions, costs, employers, healthcare, middle-class, pay, reform

June 3, 2010 at 2:59 pm.

President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act On March 23, 2010, with a follow-up signing of the Health Care and Education Affordability Act of 2010 a week later.

New privacy law aims to prevent misuse of genetic information

Posted by admin

March 10, 2010 at 11:27 am.

The federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) which took effect on March 21, 2009, is intended to protect the privacy of Americans.

Pastors and free speech

Posted by Contributor

March 5, 2010 at 8:29 am.

An amended “Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act” was enacted (section 249 of the Federal Code) in October 2009. The act expanded the scope of what crimes are punishable as “hate crimes.” Included as a punishable offense in the new law is the willful causing or attempting “to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived — sexual orientation [or] gender identity … of any person.”