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Home > Professional Regulation > VIRGINIA UPL OPINION 50

VIRGINIA UPL OPINION 50

Voluntary Association of Churches Providing Funding For Secretarial Expenses

It is not the unauthorized practice of law for a voluntary association of individual churches to provide funding for the secretarial expenses incurred by duly licensed lawyer members in rendering gratuitous will writing services to other members of the association.

Committee Opinion
November 3, 1980

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