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 are deadly serious about running down inheritance crime and inheritance criminals using criminal lawyers and the criminal justice system. We would rather victim heirs not waste their lives and money nose-picking their way through the civil justice system — fiduciary duties, not-fiduciary duties, civil fraud, other civil analogues to crime, etc. — if it can be avoided.
We have no idea why this is so difficult. Four reasons actually:-
too many civil lawyers in the field are biased towards lucrative 'probate court', 'probate litigation', etc. and know nothing about relevant criminal law
too few private prosecution-side criminal lawyers are familiar with inheritance-related crime or the practical realities of inheritance
victim heirs, misinformed about the criminal law system, don't bother to inquire into whether it can handle their criminal case quickly, cheaply and effectively
there's no culture among police or public prosecutors of treating or even recognising inheritance crime as either crime or criminal. Law enforcement would rather pretend to irrelevant useless knowledge of irrelevant useless civil law than tackle a clear case of inheritance crime (their classic "It's a civil matter" brush-off considered below).
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.
Generally speaking:-
an inheritance (or any other) crime as such is never 'a civil matter' (an accursed phrase beloved of the police), or also 'a civil matter', unless the relevant 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 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 badly misunderstood 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 criminality
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, super-speculative chance'ry litigation, which is usually multiply comprehensively inappropriate.
Police and prosecutors:-
fail from ignorance and laziness 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 inheritance context, which they clearly know nothing about
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. Law enforcement are rightly despised for it. As a general rule, we are not interested in anything any police or prosecutors have to say about any civil law or practice, whatever their pre-eminence as civil lawyers, however expert in fantasy hybrid offenses, and however clairvoyant about a case they know nothing about.