Alternative Dispute Resolution

  

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If you're in the mob, this term includes leg breaking, awl-in-nostril-shoving, and potential sleeping-with-the-fishes-type scenarios. Outside the mob, it just means using something other than a lawsuit to figure out conflict. This technique can include things like arbitration or using a mediator to attempt to resolve a dispute. So you get more Social Network and less Goodfellas. And yes, some of these glossary terms really are what they sound like they should be about.

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Finance a la shmoop what is inter vivos? inter between vivos part of an Elvis [Dictionary book flicks through pages]

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Presley song okay remember Viva Las Vegas all right

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no vivos means the living an inter vivos is a trust like between the living got

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it so sorry all you zombies with large [Zombie appears]

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inheritances and while you don't qualify well yeah inter vivos really is just

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before the trustor has kicked the bucket so that they can transfer their assets

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to trustees without having to you know go through all the probate nonsense

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which cost a fortune and chews up all the money that they could have given to [Money transfers from grave to family]

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their heirs it all goes to lawyers and the state well in other words in an

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inter vivos trust they can keep the courts from getting involved and with an

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inter vivos trust it isn't even necessary to wait until the trustor has

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a you know gone the way of the dodo before those assets are distributed like [Gravestone of Dodo appears]

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they can distribute it before they're dead bequeathed items and/or cash can

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also start being divvied out before the trustors lifetime, although a trustee

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