MHNA Inheritance Crime Consulting LLC provides a comprehensive range of specialist inheritance crime-fighting services to heirs, lawyers, law enforcement and others worldwide. We handle multi-million-dollar multi-jurisdiction inheritance crime cases, and are also equipped for smaller cases.
This no-frills no-gimmicks website describes our approach in detail.
We've seen estimates quantifying Baby Boomer assets just in the USA at ~$100 trillion ($100,000,000,000,000 — to be testamentarily distributed mostly by devolution, not dispersal). We guestimate conservatively that 0.1% of that — $100,000,000,000 — will be lost to before- and after-death inheritance crime perpetrated by heirs, lawyers and estate managers, among others. (Potentially good business for appropriate professionals.)
We are deadly serious about running down inheritance crime and inheritance criminals using criminal lawyers and the criminal justice system. If it can be avoided, we would rather victim heirs not waste their lives and money undergoing a Jarndyce-style chance'ry division of their inheritance.
We have no idea why this is so difficult. Actually we can explain it, but the situation is full of confusion and misunderstanding and takes a bit of unravelling.
Most fundamentally, MHNA's determination to thrust inheritance crime into the criminal justice system comes up against resistance from the four communities principally involved. Each community lives in its own refractory isolated world.
Civil lawyers:-
generally favor civil law and practice
especially like probate court 'probate litigation' (which often has nothing to do with probate), and chance'ry litigation: it pays better than prosecuting
don't give the uninformed victim heir holistic information or advice about the civil and criminal justice systems (they are separate, must be considered separately, are never synonymous and almost never overlap)
exploit the victim heir's ignorance by misleadingly invoking alleged crime —'inheritance theft', 'inheritance hiijacking' — to lure him into hiring a civil-law practice that has no intention of prosecuting or participating in the prosecution of anyone for anything
invoke imaginary crimes in their already false advertising. Where are the statutes outlawing inheritance-specific theft? What's inheritance 'hijacking' and where are the statutes?
Prosecution-side criminal lawyers:-
don't know enough about relevant inheritance-related factual events, incidents, episodes and sagas to be credible or effective in cases of intricate multi-jurisdictional multi-succession multi-million-dollar inheritance crime, especially when being committed right under your nose but undetectable unless you know exactly what you're looking at (especially true of inheritance crime by estate managers and their lawyers, and by the victim heir's own lawyers)
will tend to miss inheritance criminality's relevant civil law: we are not saying that civil law is irrelevant.
Victim heirs:-
are misinformed about the criminal justice system generally
don't bother to inform themselves of their concurrent and consecutive civil and criminal process options with reference to the fine particulars of the case
are dismayed and disoriented by civil lawyers' unexplained, deliberate, confusingly incongruous, irrelevant marketing averments of multiply irrelevant criminality:-
why is the civil lawyer talking criminality in his advertising — 'inheritance theft', 'inheritance hijacking', etc. — to get me through the door if he has no intention of using the criminal-law system and only wants to use the civil-law system for civil-law actionable misconduct he hasn't told me about and where the crimes he's advertising aren't actionable in the civil-law system in the first place and wants to confuse me? Why isn't he telling me that his whole shtick is about civil law and has nothing to do with criminal law?
why isn't he telling me the difference between civil and criminal illegalities in the first place and how they are dealt with in the two different systems?
why isn't he telling me up-front my civil-law causes of action (breach of fiduciary duty, breach of not-fiduciary duty, civil fraud, deceit, conversion, trespass to goods, etc.)? Why is he springing them on me only when he has got me into his fancy meeting room? Why he doesn't mention any of them in his excitable advertising?
why is this civil lawyer putting me through all this? What else does he have in store?
are cowed and dumbfounded by criminal law enforcement.
Police and public prosecutors (private prosecutors are motivated entirely differently) have their own explaining to do:-
there's no culture of treating or even recognising intricate inheritance crime as either crime or criminal. You're supposed to treat abstruse recondite crime as criminal
there's no specialty of prosecuting inheritance-related crime or criminals, especially lawyer criminals. You're supposed to be capable of prosecuting this stuff
you have a thing about making trenchant dishonest irrelevant claims to irrelevant expertise in irrelevant civil process: "It's a civil matter". This is very annoying, not least because I'm not interested in your civil-law opinion even if you're qualified to give it. As you must know, engorged with expertise, with almost no relevant exceptions a crime is never a civil matter and never also a civil matter. Since when is a crime actionable? Are you telling me that I should be suing the inheritance thief for theft? How do I do that? And why should I? Why are you fobbing me off about my choice of the criminal angle? How come you know the case when you haven't even read the file?