Fighting the “Blob”Fighting the “Blob”

Power without love is reckless and abusive. Love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power, at its best, is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice, at its best, is power correcting everything that stands against love.  

—Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Every estate-planning attorney has faced a situation in which his documents are put to the test—not by the Internal Revenue Service or the courts—but by the families of clients. The planning in these cases is often sound. Taxes are saved, generations are provided for, administrative provisions are tightly drafted and contingencies are addressed. Yet, occasionally something goes horribly wrong. Out of this pristine plan, and sometimes without warning, the documents unleash the d...