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I am a victims advocate searching for answers! A friend recommended the filing of a CC1 from the Uniform Commercial Code, to save a family from eviction.

If you have seen the national news in the past 4 months, there have been many stories of a woman named Lenore Holm, who refused parental consent for her daughter age 16 to become a plural wife in the polygamist community of Colorado City Arizona. A home built over a 24 year period on trust lands is at issue. When the 500 residents built on church land over a 40 year period, each was told to build like you would be there forever and I have seen 16,000 sq. ft. homes. The Trustees of the corporation changed in 1986 and have purged by eviction anyone unwilling to follow the polygamist lifestyle that includes giving up daughters as young as 12 to the church priesthood.

When Lenore refused her daughter earlier this year, a forceable detainer for an eviction was served on this poor couple, that still have 11 children at home. The church took the 16 year old daughter and placed her with a married man and local authorities have refused to cross over the religious freedom issue.

If you saw 20/20 Down Town on 12-19-00 or the Novembers 13th issue of Newsweek, Lenore's issue and Colorado City were in those issues.

In an earlier class action in Utah, the Utah Supreme Court Ruled in favor of the tenants, under undo enrichment. Lenore is not in Utah but rather the Arizona Supreme Court and she has no lawyer or the million dollars that the earlier 22 families had spent.

Her home is unfinished on the outside, but 5,000 sq ft. If she files this UCC 1 form for the labor and construction value of the home, which sounds to me like a Contractors Mechanic's Lein, what will be her outcome? The new trustees and their attorney's claim that she is a "Tenant at will", something she did not agree to by signature.

Does my friend know what he is talking about with this recorded document and does this mother of 13 children have a prayer? If she waits to be forceably evicted, can they put her on the street legally where it is sub freezing with this many young children? I know nothing of these laws, but time and hope are running out.

I am at graffiti@infowest.com

Lenore is at stayinthenow@hotmail.com

Please Help! or pass it on.

Thank You/ Jay Beswick