Court filing claims FLDS trust fiduciary is 'at war'

Jessop said Wisan has surrounded himself with "hateful, spiteful people who use misleading information as to what the court's intent is." He offered to facilitate a meeting between the judge and the FLDS people. The board includes ex-FLDS members. Past community meetings organized by the fiduciary to detail changes to the UEP have been sparsely attended, with little or no input from the FLDS.

It wasn't for lack of trying, the Arizona Attorney General's Office said. In a response to Parker's court filings, assistant attorney general Randy Hunter detailed a long list of efforts the fiduciary made to notify the community of changes to the trust.

"Despite all this notice, the movants have for years failed to act," he wrote, adding that it has cost the states thousands in legal bills to enact changes.

The Utah Attorney General's Office wrote that the fiduciary serves at the discretion of the court and suggested any court oversight on property transactions be limited to sales over $100,000. The UEP Trust is land rich, but cash poor. Wisan has considered selling property to pay some of the bills that come with administering the trust.

The trust was originally based on the early Mormon concept of a "united order," where members place everything in a common pot that is doled out according to "just wants and needs."

Parker wrote in court documents that the trust beneficiaries must have a voice when they believe the fiduciary's actions compromise the trust's ability to provide for their "just wants and needs."

"This court cannot allow the trust to be administered in a manner whereby it becomes an unmonitored weapon which is ... used to attack the beneficiaries it was created to support and protect," he wrote.

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