Employee Background Verfication

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IDO: Income Deduction Order: For instance a divorce, when a person is suppose to pay child support. IDO means the employer is directed to take money out of a pay check.

Immunity: Grant by the court, which assures someone will not face prosecution in return for providing criminal evidence.

Impeachment of a witness: An attack on the credibility (believability) of a witness, through evidence introduced for that purpose.

Implied consent: Requirement to take a chemical test when arrested for driving under the influence.

In camera: In chambers, or in private. A hearing in camera takes place in the judge's office outside of the presence of the jury and the public.

In Forma Pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.

In-custody arraignments (jail cases): Arrests and filed cases going to court in which there has not been a release on bond or by other means.

Inadmissible: That which, under the rules of evidence, cannot be admitted or received as evidence.

Incarcerate: To confine in jail.

Independent Executor: A special kind of executor, permitted by the laws of certain states, who perfoms the duties of an executor without intervention by the court.

Indeterminate sentence: A sentence of imprisonment to a specified minimum and maximum period of time, specifically authorized by statute, subject to termination by a parole board or other authorized agency after the prisoner has served the minimum term.

Indictment: A formal charging document issued by a grand jury to the court, that the named person committed a specific offense.

Indigent: Needy or improverished. A defendant who can demonstrate his/her indigence to the court may be assigned a court-appointed attorney at public expense.

Information: A formal charging document issued by the State Attorney, that the named person committed a specific offense.

Infraction: A violation of law not punishable by imprisonment. Minor traffic offenses generally are considered infractions.

Inheritance Tax: A state tax on property that an heir or beneficiary under a will receives from a deceased person's estate. The heir or beneficiaty pays this tax.

Initial Appearance: In criminal law, the hearing at which a judge determines whether there is sufficient evidence against a person charged with a crime to hold him/her for trial. The Constitution bans secret accusations, so initial appearances are public unless the defendant asks otherwise; the accused must be present, though he/she unually does not offer evidence. Also called first appearance.

Initial proceedings: The first court appearance of a defendant on a charge.

Injunction: Writ or order by a court prohibiting a specific action from being carried out by a person or group. A preliminary injunction is granted provisionally, until a full hearing can be held to determine if it should be made permanent.

Instructions: Judge's explanation to the jury before it begins deliberations of the questions it must answer and the applicable law governing the case. Also called charge to the jury.

Intangible assets: Nonphysical items such as stock certificates, bonds, bank accounts, and pension benefits that have value and must be taken into account in estate planning.

Inter Vivos Gift: A gift made during the giver's life.

Inter Vivos Trust: Another name for living trust.

Interlocutory: Provisional; not final. An interlocutory order or an interlocutory appeal concerns only a part of the issues reaised in a lawsuit.

Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party in a lawsuit for which the opposing party must provide written answers.

Intervention: An action by which a third person who may be affected by a lawsuit is permitted to become a party to the suit. Differs from the process of becoming an amicus curiae.

Intestacy Laws: See descent and distrubition statutes.

Intestate:Dying without having a will.

Intestate Succession: The process by which the property of a person who has died without a will passes on to others according to the state's descent and distribution statutes. If someone dies without a will, and the court uses the state's intestate succession laws, an heir who receives some of the deceased' s property is an intestate heir.

Invoke the rule: Separation and exclusion of witnesses from the courtroom.

Irrevocable Trust: A trust that, once set up, the grantor may not revoke.

Issue: The disputed point in a disagreement between parties in a lawsuit. And To send out officially, as in to issue an order.

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