Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in California

Why do living trusts use unit instead of percentages when indicating what portion of the trust each beneficiary shall receive. This is for a trust in California.


Asked on 9/27/17, 4:20 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Aaron Feldman Feldman Law Group

I do not know. In my experience some older trusts prepared by trust mills that were really trying to sell annuities use archaic language like that. I'd be surprised if the Trust you are looking at isn't 20+ years old. However, if you have 100 units, that's the same as using %

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Answered on 9/27/17, 4:33 pm


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