The donor must have intended to make an inter vivos gift.

However, the trust need not be funded inter vivos.

I don't know the old gift inter vivos dodge.

However, there is an exception for inter vivos gifts and transfers in trust.

It does not apply to property settled inter vivos.

An inter vivos trust may well be preferable to a will as the estate planning device for any given individual.

The rule makes a difference when property owners make inter vivos gifts of less than fee simple interests.

Living, or inter vivos, trusts are set up during the lifetime of a grantor, but they may continue after the person's death.

The response has been to view the secret trust as a disposition inter vivos ("between the living") rather than testamentary in nature.

And Charles explained briefly about the gift inter vivos to Nigel.

Thus proprietary estoppel may also be used to perfect an imperfect inter vivos gift.

This can be a living trust, also called an inter vivos trust, in combination with a marital life estate.

There are many motives for passing on wealth (we refer to bequests but include under this gifts inter vivos).

They are, however, on the same footing as donations inter vivos once the donor has renounced his right to revoke.

Article 6 allows the settlor to select the applicable law in the inter vivos or testamentary document.

To avoid this problem, one approach has been to reclassify the secret trust as inter vivos ("between the living") but this creates other problems.

Such an arrangement, which cannot be changed by the person creating it, is a living, or inter vivos, trust made during the lifetime of the grantor.

Another good way of minimizing taxes on your estate is by making gifts called inter vivos to your heirs while you're still alive.

Inter vivos trust, a legal instrument

If the trust is created inter vivos (i.e. during the settlor's lifetime):

A settlor who is living at the time the trust is established creates an inter vivos trust.

A joint tenancy is severed if a joint tenant disposes of his interest inter vivos.

Healthy humans have two kidneys, a redundancy that enables living donors (inter vivos) to give a kidney to someone who needs it.

The term inter vivos is also used to describe living organ donation, in which one patient donates an organ to another while both are alive.

However, these testamentary trusts did not develop into the inter vivos (living) trusts which apply while the creator lives.