Since these churches are non profits, buy law once they dissolve, all their property reverts to the annual conference per their original organiing documents. The conferences are allowing them to instead pass that property on to their successor organiztions if they pay what is oued plus two years of financial contibutions. This amounts to a few thousand for millions in property. This just one more example of Christians not wanting to live by the law of the land and just have their own way. I have no sympathy for either side .
Full disclosure, I was an ordained lay speaker in the UMC and worked with the hierarchy of the church through 3 general conferences, and was a delegate to 3 different annual conference Texas, North Texas and Rio Grande