Greetings!

I’m setting up a revocable living trust structure for my family, and I’d like to get input from investors who use trusts for privacy and asset organization. My spouse and I are each creating our own RLT (standard two‑trust setup). For privacy and consistency across our real estate holdings, we want to use the same trust name for both trusts and distinguish them only by the date of execution, which is the actual legal identifier.

We prefer the same naming convention because:

• -It keeps our public records clean and private (deeds, titles, etc.).
• -It creates a consistent structure across multiple properties.
• -Successor trustees only need to track dates, not two different naming patterns.
• -The trust date — not the title — is what legally distinguishes one trust from another.

Our attorney advised against using the same name, saying it could create “confusion or ambiguity.” From what I can tell, that seems more like an administrative preference than a legal issue, since the date and the trust document itself establish identity.

My question to the community: For those of you who use revocable trusts for real estate: Have you run into any actual problems using the same trust name for both spouses, as long as the dates differ? Is there any real legal or practical downside, or is this just a drafting preference?

Appreciate any insight from people who’ve structured their trusts with privacy in mind.