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. Four reasons actually:-
civil lawyers generally favor civil law and practice. They don't give the victim heir holistic information or advice about the civil and criminal justice systems. They like lucrative probate court 'probate litigation' (which often has nothing to do with probate), and chance'ry litigation, and pay little or no attention to relevant crime, criminality and criminal process. Some advertising and other representations are misleading. If you must start with a civil approach, and conflate it in your marketing with 'inheritance theft', 'inheritance hijacking', etc., consider getting such a case into the criminal law system, where you imply it already belongs, before suing anyone. If you say it's 'theft', treat it as such. MHNA will irrebutably present the criminal case to law enforcement for you
prosecution-side criminal lawyers will tend to miss inheritance criminality's relevant civil law — we are not saying that civil law is irrelevant — and relevant factual events, incidents, episodes and sagas. From an intimate familiarity with the relevant inheritance ecosystem, you have to know where to look, what to look for and what you're looking at. MHNA will dissect the case for you, clarify everything for you, and tell you exactly what's going on factually and legally
victim heirs, misinformed about the criminal law system and disoriented by civil lawyers' deliberate, confusingly incongruous, unexplained marketing averments of criminality, don't bother to inform themselves of their concurrent and consecutive civil and criminal process options. With reference to the fine particulars of your case, MHNA will thoroughly inform you so that you genuinely know where to go and what to do
there's no culture among police or public prosecutors of treating or even recognising inheritance crime as either crime or criminal. Even if the case be handed to you on bone china, you would rather make dishonest irrelevant claims to irrelevant expertise in irrelevant civil process — "It's a civil matter" — and consign the victim complainant to the civil justice system's tender mercies, than do your job. MHNA has detailed training programs ready and waiting for you.
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.