Generally speaking:-
inheritance crime is ordinary plain-vanilla crime committed in the context of inheritance
there is almost no specific criminal law about it because ordinary plain-vanilla criminal law already covers it
there is no such offense as 'inheritance theft' or 'inheritance hijacking'
there is nothing inherently difficult about committing, identifying, investigating, examining, evaluating, 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 badly misunderstood and badly mishandled
perpetrators, especially lawyers (as such and as estate managers), know how to exploit the phony complexity of an inheritance situation (there's no such thing as a complex inheritance situation) and its open invitations to criminality
neglectful, emotional, distressed, confused, uninformed, incoherent, grandiose victims let it happen and then do nothing about it
police and prosecutors:-
fail to understand the simple, ordinary dynamics and context of inheritance crime — ordinary plain-vanilla crime, comprehensively covered by general criminal law, committed in the context of inheritance
are easily confused and intimidated by the context, which they clearly know nothing about
do not lack for pretentiousness and presumption in venturing uninformed misguided irrelevant expert civil-law opinions and imposing them on the victim. "It's a civil matter" sounds familiar?
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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.