title: Can You Trust Your Trust?: What You Need to Know about the Advantages and Disadvantages of Trusts and Trust Compliance Issues
author: Seymour Goldberg
description: <span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Seymour Goldberg</span><span>, CPA, MBA, JD, is a senior partner in the law firm of Goldberg &amp; Goldberg, P.C., in Woodbury, New York.</span></span>
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  ## The Octopus Marooned
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( The Gentle Grafter - 1 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### O. Henry
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## O. Henry
  
  
  ## The Gentle Grafter
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The Octopus Marooned
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "A trust is its weakest point," said Jeff Peters.
  
  
  "That," said I, "sounds like one of those unintelligible remarks such as, 'Why
  is a policeman? "
  
  
  "It is not," said Jeff. "There are no relations between a trust and a
  policeman. My remark was an epitogram—an axis—a kind of mulct'em in parvo.
  What it means is that a trust is like an egg, and it is not like an egg. If
  you want to break an egg you have to do it from the outside. The only way to
  break up a trust is from the inside. Keep sitting on it until it hatches. Look
  at the brood of young colleges and libraries that's chirping and peeping all
  over the country. Yes, sir, every trust bears in its own bosom the seeds of
  its destruction like a rooster that crows near a Georgia colored Methodist
  camp meeting, or a Republican announcing hi