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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A judge on Friday approved the state's request for independent parties to temporarily take control of a polygamous sect's assets.
Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's office had sought the order against trustees for a fund operated by the southern Utah-based Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and its reclusive church president, Warren Jeffs.
Virtually all property in the twin border communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., was at one time transferred to the United Effort Plan trust to be shared by church members. The trust has been estimated to contain as much as $100 million, Shurtleff said.
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