MHNA 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.

We are open for business to anyone, in any jurisdiction (the subject is generic and universal), concerned personally and or professionally in fighting inheritance crime. 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.

This no-frills no-gimmicks website describes our approach in detail. If it strikes you as empassioned, that's because it is. We are not playing strawberries-and-cream with this subject.

An ancient vice of universal concern, inheritance crime is a major under-reported, under-done menace:-

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.

MHNA sees all relevant inheritance-related dysfunction as actually or potentially criminal. 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. MHNA also provides comprehensive courses and training on inheritance crime-fighting.

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 should be difficult. We can explain why it is difficult. The situation takes a bit of unravelling. (We venture to suggest that the whole subject is a bit of a mess; and this doesn't take into account the unknowns of the criminal trial even when you've mastered both the subject and the case.)

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 impenetrable, more or less confused and confusing 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)
have little or no expertise or experience in criminal law practice and for all their advertised implicit prowess are not inclined to diversify into it
exploit the victim heir's ignorance by misleadingly invoking allegedly extant alleged crime —'inheritance theft', 'inheritance hiijacking', about which they seem to know nothing — to lure him into hiring a civil lawyer who has never had any intention of prosecuting or participating in prosecuting anyone for anything and who intends to practise as yet undisclosed civil law and only that law
invent crimes. What law outlaws inheritance theft? What's inheritance 'hijacking' and where's the law on it?

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). Inheritance is not an ingredient in a particular crime unless the criminalising statute explicitly says otherwise. But inheritance facts are very relevant to how, when, where, by whom and against whom a relevant crime is committed. You risk missing them every time
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 excited advertising?  
- why is this civil lawyer knowingly and deliberately putting me through all this? What else does he have in store? 
- are cowed and dumbfounded by criminal law enforcement
- are not capable of constructing or presenting an attractively irrefutable brief for 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 and prosecute it
there's no specialty of prosecuting inheritance-related crime or criminals, especially lawyer criminals. You're supposed to have specialist competence in this stuff
you have a thing about making trenchant dishonest irrelevant claims to irrelevant expertise in non-existent law and irrelevant non-existent civil process. "It's a civil matter" is very annoying, not least because I haven't asked for and don't want your civil-law opinion even if you or I think (which I don't) that you're qualified to give it. As you must know with all that civil-law expertise of yours, a crime is almost never a civil matter and almost never also a civil matter. Since when is a crime actionable, in this case or at all? (Since your 'civil matter' edict? Your similiar edicts in other cases?) Are you telling me (like the civil lawyer in his misleading advertising, above) that I can sue, should be suing and must sue the inheritance thief for theft in this case? How do I do that exactly? And why should I let you make any such choice for me, assuming (which I don't) that the option exists (which it doesn't)? Why exactly are you not only spinning me nonsense about your own civil-law expertise, the scope of your professional functions and duties, civil and criminal law, hybrid criminality and about your right to choose for me between your own fantasy civil crime and real-life criminal crime, in a case you know nothing about, but also excluding the criminal angle and giving me the flip about denouncing the criminals to law enforcement? (and how do you know anything about the case when you haven't read the file?) And of course, most fundamentally of all, a genuine cause of action for real civil misconduct can coexist with a criminal complaint for criminal misconduct: the two systems are separate and rarely if ever interact. You already know all this. What happened, exactly, to doing your job? No, I'm not going to run along.

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 (by which we almost always mean public 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.

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.

more summary

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. A few favorite inheritance crime situations from our files:-

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
a Cambridge college sits on a legacy for more than sixteen years, doing nothing to honor it, and then instructs a firm of notoriously expensive belligerent lawyers to idiotically tell the concerned residuary heir that it will get round to doing something (unspecified) 'in the coming months' (there's nothing honest about any of this)
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. We are deeply concerned about accounting, accounts, accountants, auditing, audits, auditors and others in relation to interim and final draft and final estate manager financial statements prepared for the inner office, the back office, the front office, tax authorities 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.

In preparation:-

INHERITANCE CRIME: A MANUAL FOR HEIRS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

Hard copy and ebook. 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

Hard copy and ebook. 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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