What if the HOA were sued?

What could be some of the effects of a major lawsuit against the Summit's HOA?

What if a judge 

- ruled that all of the Voting Members, except the one in the Barony Place Neighborhood, were not legitimate Voting Members?

- ruled that the past 5-6 Annual Meetings of Voting Members were improperly convened (no quorum) and that the elections of directors were invalid?

- ruled that all the current directors were not duly-elected?

- ruled that none of the officers was legitimate?

- ruled that the HOA could not contract for services (legal, management, maintenance, repairs, landscaping, etc.)?

- ruled that no one was legally in charge of the HOA's cash assets of $2,000,000?

- ruled that a Trustee or Administrator had to be appointed to safeguard the assets and to run the HOA?

- ruled that the S.C. Secretary of State should dissolve the HOA and distribute its assets to other non-profit organizations?

- ruled that directors and officers should be charged with usurping, intruding into, or unlawfully holding or exercising any office in a corporation created by the authority of the State of South Carolina?

- ruled that directors and officers knew, or should have known, that what they were doing was illegal?

- ruled that the Directors' and Officers' Liability insurance carrier was excused from defending them, because of five years' worth of complaints to the HOA?

- ruled that assets (money) in the HOA could not be used to defend directors or officers?

The HOA President wrote in the May 2024 Summit Scoop, "We have a monumental hurdle to overcome financially."

Shouldn't the HOA take all possible steps to avoid being sued?

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