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?

Generally speaking:-

an inheritance (or any other) crime as such is never 'a civil matter' (an accursed phrase beloved of so-called law enforcement), or also 'a civil matter', unless the relevant crime statute expressly says so. Out of hundreds of relevant crime statutes globally that we've reviewed, we've only ever seen two crimes — in US states — statutorily justiciable in both criminal and civil court (and neither concerns inheritance)
there's almost no specific criminal law about it. There doesn't need to be: ordinary plain-vanilla criminal law already covers it
inheritance crime is ordinary plain-vanilla crime committed in the context of inheritance
there's no such crime as 'inheritance theft' or 'inheritance hijacking'
there's no specialty among lawyers or law enforcement of inheritance crime. There does need to be. Criminal lawyers do need to be intimately acquainted with all relevant (and some irrelevant) procedural, substantive, financial, legal, technical and practical aspects of the crime scene in full context: what are the jurisdictional issues; who are the principal and accessory perpetrators and how do they work individually, in combination and collectively (including what they are supposed to be doing and not doing in civil law, if that's relevant to criminality, which it usually won't be); exactly what ordinary plain-vanilla and other criminality do they commit (including its concealment) and how, when, where and in relation to what do they do it; who are the victims; what assets, liabilities, business, situations, issues, activities, relationships and transactions in which locations (inner office, back office, front office, recourse, etc.) are the subject and object of what criminality; what points and issues, especially those raised in purported self-exculpation by the perpetrators, are relevant and irrelevant; where the perpetrators are lawyers, judges and relevant officials, what are the peculiar ways and circumstances in which they conceive, carry out, accomplish and attempt to consummate their criminality
there's nothing inherently difficult about committing, identifying, investigating, examining, evaluating, valuing, expounding, elucidating, exposing or pursuing inheritance crime.

Inheritance crime is close to the perfect crime because:-

the subject, for all its antediluvian antiquity and ubiquity, is in its fundamentals still badly misunderstood, badly explained and badly mishandled
perpetrators, especially lawyers (as such and as estate managers) and other stiff-collar criminals, know how to comprehensively exploit the phony complexity of an inheritance situation (there's no such thing as a complex inheritance situation) and its open invitations to easily committed multi-dimensional multiple comprehensive crime
neglectful, emotional, distressed, confused, uninformed, incoherent, despondent, grandiose victims let it happen and then do nothing about it
specialist chance'ry lawyers, knowing nothing relevant about criminal law or practice, dragoon their now multiply victimised victims in the direction of expensive, speculative, potentially dangerous chance'ry litigation, which is usually multiply comprehensively inappropriate. No criminal process. It might as well not exist as crime.

Police and prosecutors:-

fail from ignorance and laziness to understand the simple, ordinary dynamics and context of inheritance crime — it's all simple ordinary plain-vanilla crime, comprehensively covered by simple ordinary criminal law, committed in the context of inheritance
are easily confused and intimidated by the inheritance context, which they clearly know little or nothing about. We suspect that criminal investigations of inheritance crime, when they do happen, are cumbersome, ungainly, inelegant and protracted because law enforcement does not know enough about inheritance or inheritance crime, simple or intricate, to do any better. Any other reason?
do not lack for pretentiousness, presumption and bad faith. Knowing nothing relevant about civil law or practice, knowing less about inheritance law and practice and knowing nothing about the case (except that they don't want it), "It's a civil matter" is an all-too-familiar inappropriate, unfounded, meaningless, irrelevant, reprehensible edict, just because they see an actual or potential civil law connection. Law enforcement are rightly despised for this racket. We are generally not interested in anything any police or prosecutor has to say at any time for any reason about any civil law or practice, whatever their actual or fancied pre-eminence as civil lawyers, however expert in imaginary hybrid offenses, and however clairvoyant about a case they know nothing about. Crime and criminal law must be the starting points.

customers

MHNA inheritance crime-fighting services are available direct to testators, aspirant heirs, expectant heirs, disappointed heirs, heirs-in-waiting, executors, administrators, civil lawyers, criminal lawyers, police, prosecutors, accountants, auditors, tax authorities and appropriate others at all stages of any inheritance process.

foci

MHNA deals with the full range of inheritance-related general, technical, financial and other dysfunction, malfunction, misconduct, dishonesty and criminality in relation to (among others) wills, codicils, intestacy, succession, estate management, mental capacity, elder abuse, inter-family dysfunction, disinheritance etc. These are usually simple crimes that have nothing to do with inheritance law.

services

At all stages of the before- and after-death inheritance process, MHNA provides, discreetly and confidentially, the full range of advisory, consulting, supervisory, data, support and other services. We can handle cases involving any type of estate asset including cash, securities, art, antiques, marine vessels, private airplanes, realty, intellectual property etc., and any type of testator unfinished front-office business.

jurisdictions

MHNA deals with dysfunction, dishonesty and criminality in common-law and civil-law jurisdictions: we consider inheritance crime to be largely generic wherever committed. MHNA is at home internationally and multi-nationally across multiple jurisdictions. MHNA is a global business.

more summary

MHNA Inheritance Crime Consulting is open for business to anyone, in any jurisdiction — the subject is generic and universal — concerned personally, professionally and or otherwise in fighting inheritance crime.

Though we also assist on the civil side, MHNA's particular line is the criminalising of inheritance crime. MHNA identifies, investigates, examines, analyses, assesses, evaluates, gross- and net-values, elucidates, exposes and pursues inheritance crime.

The widely discussed global multi-trillion-dollar wealth transfer now in progress (devolution mainly, dispersal rarely): you can inherit it and or you can steal it. Before- and after-death testamentary assets fall into the hands not only of criminal heirs but of an entire ecosystem of parasitic predators including lawyers (especially lawyers) and professional estate fiduciaries (mainly lawyers). And 'theft' is simplistic. The range of intra- and inter-jurisdictional, multi-dimensional, multi-layer, multi-stage, multi-party criminality that can envelope just one testator and one estate is encyclopedic: theft, criminal non-disclosure, criminal misrepresentation, criminal abuse of position, criminal accounting, money laundering, asset laundering, activity laundering, assault, kidnapping, impersonation, murder, forgery, obstructing justice, perjury…

MHNA is familiar with all this from real cases.

We look at the full range of possible, potential, probable, prospective, incipient, developing and (if we are hired too late) accomplished before- and after-death inheritance crime by old and new family, 'friends', professional financial advisers, asset managers, executors, administrators, trustees, lawyers, heirs, judges, regulators, estate front-office opponents, healthcare practitioners, caregivers, guardians, power-attorneys and others. No-one is above or beyond suspicion.

A few of our favorite inheritance crime situations (all known directly to MHNA in detail from real cases):-

multiple 'expert' lawyers in multiple jurisdictions giving patently bad advice to the criminal standard
'leave everything to me' solicitous elder abuse including coercion to make lifetime gifts, new will, codicils, etc. + contemporaneous theft (art, furniture, cash)

elaborate, brazen, flagrant inheritance crime hidden conspicuously in the plain site of 'experts'
committed by organised criminals, especially gangs of lawyers, gangs of heirs and hybrid gangs
criminal cash, asset and activity washing, rinsing, bleaching, drying, ironing, starching etc. involving estate managers, power-attorneys, trusted insiders, lawyers, auction houses, corrupt private buyers, corrupt bankers, corrupt tax officials, corrupt police, corrupt judges, etc.
committed by estate manager criminals and their lawyers in criminal imaginary estate management
committed against high-value, intricate, vulnerable estates with complex factual and legal international and multi-jurisdictional dynamics
inherent and exherent duty-interest conflict crime (criminal evidence tampering a specialty)
sagely pronounced by 'expert' lawyers to be 'unprecedented', 'too difficult', etc.
criminal numbers: books of account, draft and final financial statements, tax filings etc.
criminal imaginary estate front-office litigation by the estate manager criminal and her lawyer accomplices against co-criminal front-office opponents: phoney claims, data criminality, brazen dishonesty to the court, 'eye-watering' criminal billing, etc. (and criminal chance'ry judges and costs judges)
committed by a succession of the victim heir's own multiply dishonest specialist saboteur lawyers colluding with heirs and the criminal estate manager and her gangs
sabotage of the testator's unfinished front-office business by the estate manager criminal in collusion with front-office opponents and others.

This barely scratches the surface of a vast subject.

MHNA is on top of it.

With MHNA on the case, participants on all sides of an inheritance crime scene will catch on that a genuine operation is in place — conscientious, diligent, loyal and relentless.

MHNA also provides comprehensive courses and training on inheritance crime-fighting.

In preparation:-

INHERITANCE CRIME: A MANUAL FOR HEIRS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

Hardback and ebook. Probably around $99. With dedicated podcast, webinars, videos, enewsletter, alternative ethics courses, networking. For testators, their families, friends, lawyers, advisers; expectant proto-heirs; heirs-in-waiting; heirs; lawyers, accountants, law enforcement, regulators, journalists, researchers, judges etc. The full range of pre-death and post-death criminality in relation to inheritance. For more details, see this book's webpage at Anatexis.Media.

ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING IN INHERITANCE CRIME

Paperback and ebook. Probably around $99. With dedicated webinars with guest contributors. For testators, heirs, clerks, bookkeepers, in-house and outside accountants, forensic fiduciary accountants, forensic fiduciary and general auditors, tax authorities, law enforcement, judges, estate fiduciaries, lawyers etc. Comprehensive consideration of pre-death and post-death authentic and fabricated numbers; logs, ledgers, archives, primary source material, underlying data, books of account, sets of accounts, draft and final accounts, tax filings, court filings, shadow data, data handling, forensic approaches etc. For more details, see this book's webpage at Anatexis.Media.

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