This second edition contains many new features -- over 400 pages of additional material. Key chapters have been updated with the latest legal and ecclesiastical developments, and several new chapters have been added. Helpful appendices and editor's notes have also been included: local church forms, noteworthy trial court opinions, sample court judgments, law journal articles, and outstanding briefs recently submitted to state supreme courts and to the United States Supreme Court, authored by some of America's top attorneys.