Privacy

It is our (Creator-endowed, Constitutionally-and-California-Code-protected) right to operate and contract in the private. In this regard "unincorporated" = "private", which is the realm of living wo/men under natural law.

Ownership

The UNA is not owned by anyone, most certainly not the social-security-number "you". Instead, UNA's are stewarded and controlled by its managing officers, as identified through its Articles and Bylaws...

Control

The UNA (along with its assets, property, accounts, etc.) is controlled by its officers, free from statutory entanglements, tax filings, and compliance requirements...

Tax FILINGS

As an unincorporated nonprofit association, UNAs may obtain a "CP 575 E" EIN number from the IRS, which does not have any filing requirements...

Unincorporated

As an unincorporated association, a UNA's Articles and Bylaws is the private contract and law by which it operates. Since a UNA is not "incorporated", it also operates in privacy which legislative and statutory agencies cannot interfere with. Compared to other options — e.g. LLCs, 501(c)(3), partnerships, joint ventures, even trusts — UNA's provide ease and control with fewest hoops to jump through.

"Own nothing, control everything."

— Nelson Rockefelller

“The individual may stand upon his constitutional rights as a citizen. He is entitled to carry on his private business in his own way. His power to contract is unlimited. He owes no duty to the State or to his neighbors to divulge his business, or to open his doors to an investigation, so far as it may tend to criminate him. He owes no such duty to the State, since he receives nothing therefrom beyond the protection of his life and property.

His rights are such as existed by the law of the land long antecedent to the organization of the State, and can only be taken from him by due process of law, and in accordance with the Constitution. Among his rights are a refusal to incriminate himself and the immunity of himself and his property from arrest or seizure except under a warrant of the law. He owes nothing to the public so long as he does not trespass upon their rights.”

— Hale v. Henkle (1905)
 

California-Established

California’s Corporation Code (Title 3) is regarded as the strongest in / on the United States of America when it comes to the rights and privacy of UNA's and the women and men who serve them, both within the boundaries of California as well as any State of the Union...

18035. "Unincorporated association" means an unincorporated group of two or more persons joined by mutual consent for a common lawful purpose, whether organized for profit or not.

18125. No limitation on the power of an unincorporated association to acquire, hold, manage, pledge, encumber, or transfer an interest in real or personal property.

18605. A member, director, or agent of a nonprofit association is not liable for a debt, obligation, or liability of the association solely by reason of being a member, director, officer, or agent.

Simplicity

What's true is simple.

And UNA's are by far the simplest option available...

GENERATIONAL

When a private unincorporated nonprofit association holds assets and property, nothing needs to change upon the death of any managing officer.... merely a requirement for a new Secretary-Treasurer. This means: no probate. UNAs also don't have any end date, even upon the death of managing officers.

ASSEt PrOTECTION

When the UNA holds legal title to assets, it does so completely independently of its members and officers...

18105. An unincorporated association may, in its name, acquire, hold, manage, encumber, or transfer an

interest in real or personal property.

18110. Property acquired by or for an unincorporated association is property of the unincorporated association and not of the members individually.

This translates into no estate tax, no gift tax, no capital gains tax, no probate...

W9 / 1099

Update W9s, where instead of your SSN's NAME / 9-digit number, you use a UNA.

SSN tax liabilities can thus be reduced / eliminated, as the SSN entity is no longer receiving "income"...

UNA vs TRUST?

UNAs and Private Trusts are similar in that both provide private stewardship of assets to serve the lives of living beings (beneficiaries / members), and both fall under Equity jurisprudence.

UNAs, however, feel much (much) simpler to create and control as per it's own Articles and Bylaws under California Corporations Code vs the complexities and formalities of Trust Law...

 
"... they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."

"... it becomes necessary for people to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..."

— The unanimous Declaration of the
thirteen united States of America (1776)

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”  
– Leonardo da Vinci

INTEGRIty

By having clean hands and standing in Equity as a good-faith steward of a UNA, one may not need additional, overly-complex structures and strategies to protect assets and minimize liabilities...

In honor, one may wield this simple option that's been available and hidden in plain sight...

"Non-PROFIT"

“Nonprofit" does not equal "no profit". It simply means the UNA's primary purpose is other than to make profit.

A UNA may carry on any activities for profit and apply any profit that results from the business activity to any activity in which it may lawfully engage.

As a non-profit, donations to UNAs may also be tax-deductible as per IRS code.