Walker v. Walker

Donald Walker's trust, drafted to minimize estate taxes, inadvertently included a provision giving his wife Virginia a general power of appointment-contrary to his actual intent, since a general power would trigger the very estate-tax consequences he sought to avoid. The drafting attorney's evidence supported that this was a drafting mistake rather than Donald's true intent.

Whether a trust can be reformed to match the settlor's intent due to a scrivener's error.