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 (assets, property, accounts) is controlled by its officers (e.g Secretary-Treasurer) as specified in its Articles and Bylaws... which you create, embody, and stand on as part of the Knowledge Share...

Tax FILINGS

As an unincorporated entity, UNAs receive a "CP 575 E" EIN number from the IRS which don't have any filing requirements...

Private / Privacy

It is our (Creator-endowed and Constitutionally-protected) right to operate and contract in the private, as illustrated in numerous Supreme Court cases (notably Hale v. Henkel), and as supported through Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 : "No State shall pass any Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts" ...

"Unincorporated"

"Unincorporated" means "private". A UNA's Articles and Bylaws is the private contract. Since a UNA is not incorporated, it also operates in privacy, which the government cannot interfere with. Compared to other options (e.g. 501(c)(3), partnerships, joint ventures), UNA's provide maximum control with fewest hoops to jump through. With a UNA, the only compliance is with its own Articles and Bylaws, in Law and Equity...

"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. (a) "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.

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.

18615. A director, officer, or agent of a nonprofit association is not liable for a contractual obligation of the association.

Simplicity

What's true is simple. And UNA's are by far the simplest option available, with its power and clarity coming from its Articles and Bylaws, which the Knowledge Share focuses on as the foundation to embody and align with...

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 (donated or sold to the Association), equitable interest can be provided to members without any liability, while simultaneously not  being susceptible to any capital gains tax...

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 also translates into members / officers not being held liable in the name of the Association, while all gifts (donations) to the UNA are removed from Estate, Gift, Capital Gains, and Death Tax exposure...

W9 / 1099

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

SSN tax liabilities (for this entity) can thus be reduced / eliminated, as the SSN entity is no longer receiving "income", and thus, has no filing requirements...

UNA vs TRUST?

The two feel similar in that both 1) provide private stewardship of assets to serve the lives of living beings, and 2) fall under Equity Jurisprudence;

UNAs, however, feel much simpler to create and control as per it's own Articles and Bylaws (vs long-established-and-monitored Trust laws)...

"... 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 coming with clean hands and standing in Equity as an honorable steward of a UNA, one may not need additional, overly-complex structures and strategies to protect assets and minimize liabilities...

And yet, what does it mean to come with clean hands, and renew enough of one's Mind to wield this simple option that's been available the whole time...

AUTONOMY

As a private association — with no statutory requirements to comply or jump through as to how it is to be managed — the (energetic, practical) autonomy comes through the renewing of self-authority /self-authorship / self-agency, the bearing of faithful witness (to what is), and the Articles and Bylaws as the foundation (contract, law) to stand on...