We recommend first checking out the general courses page and the some favorite subjects page.
This page mentions, highly summarily, a few components of a few suggested MHNA customised courses for the inheritance crime-fighter.
MHNA believes that patrons of our courses are sophisticated, commercially-minded, time-is-money practitioners who know what they want and don't want. Pick whichever subjects you like from the building blocks below to construct one or more courses to exactly fit your requirements.
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B1: The five fundamental approaches: (1) credibly, efficiently, effectively, cost-effectively Deter, Prevent, Detect, Expose, Pursue; who does what when, how, why; (2) terminology to use cautiously, including 'probate', 'fiduciary', 'fiduciant', 'will', heir', etc.; (3) terminology to avoid, including 'inheritance theft', 'inheritance hijacking', etc.
B2: Inheritance 101 (some of these subjects are dealt with in more detail in other modules): (0) orientation to bequests: devolution vs. dispersal; (1) history; domicile, citizenship, residence; jurisdiction; governing laws; adjudicating fora; (2) who has what rights to give and receive what: free-will vs. not-free-will jurisdictions; (3) the inner circle: testator, spouse, family, step-family, old family, new family, friendly family, estranged aggrieved etc. family, relevant friends and 'friends'; mental, physical, situational evaluations; (4) advisers etc.: lawyers, accountants, auditors, asset managers, estate planners, carers, doctors, bankers etc.; (5) the documentary expression; witnesses; authenticity; challenges; multiple consistent, inconsistent wills in one or more jurisdictions; (6) intestacy; destroyed, lost, stolen, adulterated, 'found'; authentic, forged, fabricated etc.; (7) gross and net estate; evaluations; gross and net valuations; (8) devolved and dispersed assets and liabilities; (9) inventory, tax accounts, other accounts; (10) other estate-relevant documents, data; (11) civil law and the civil system; grants before and after probate; inheritance litigation; (12) estate managers and management; estate manager's legal position; criminal relevance of fiduciary and not-fiduciary duties; (13) jurisdiction of jurisdiction-specific civil and criminal courts; chancery court, probate court, surrogacy court, bankruptcy court, other fora; multiple jurisdictions; conflict of laws, private international law; (14) the criminal system re inheritance crime: jurisdiction; investigation, charge, arrest, arraignment, pre-trial, trial, acquittal, conviction, expiation, restitution; when does the criminality stop? continuum-saturation criminality
B3: Documents, transactions: (1) wills; (2) codicils; (3) letters of wishes; (4) healthcare proxies; (5) bank mandates; (6) life insurance policies; (7) powers of attorney; (8) guardianship; (9) trusts; (10) logs, ledgers, archives, accounts; (11) tax filings; (12) settlements, compromises; (13) documents, relationships, transactions relating to current and contingent assets and liabilities; (14) assets and liabilities: realty, personalty; known and not known; accessible and inaccessible
B4: Crime locations and junctures: (1) inner office; back office; front office; recourse; (2) locating precisely where the inheritance criminal acts and interacts, with whom, how, why etc.; (3) inheritance crime past, current and future: why, how and when to look out for exactly what
B5: Participants and perpetrators: (0) orientation to relevant ecosystems, environments, communities, support systems; (1) testators: mental and physical capacity; spouses, ex-spouses; offspring; family situations, relationships etc.; (2) the various of heir: proto-heir, pseudo-heir, heir presumptive, presumptuous heir, expectant heir, entitled heir, heir-in-waiting, disappointed heir, impersonator, etc; (3) estate managers (executor, ad col grantee, interim administrator, full administrator etc); (4) lawyers; accountants; forensic accountants; auditors; police, prosecutors; judges, juries; regulators; press; social media; doctors, surgeons, psychiatrists, geriatricians; care home personnel, estate planners, asset planners, asset managers etc.; (A) principals, co-principals; (B) accessories before, during, after various facts; (C) conspiracy; (D) attempt
B6: Orientation to inheritance crime perpetration: (1) committed BY participants; (2) committed AGAINST participants; (3) groups, gangs; organised crime; (4) before death; (5) after death
B7: Orientation to particular inheritance crimes: (0) the notion of inheritance crime vs. inheritance-related crime: what the statutes say and don't say specifically about inheritance; (1) data crime: non-disclosure, misrepresentation etc.; (2) financial crime; introduction to accounting and auditing crime; (3) estate management crime; (4) forgery, fabrication, falsification, fantasy; (5) theft, receiving, handling; fencing; introduction to asset location and recovery; (6) money laundering, asset laundering; (7) obstructing justice, contempt, perjury, other court crime; (8) criminal abuse of position, coercion, elder abuse, intimidation, assault, kidnapping, drugging, murder, identity theft, impersonation etc; (9) introduction to RICO etc.; (A) need / no need for victim, gain, loss; (B) irrelevance of fiduciary duties, fiduciary position, motive, motivation unless expressly stipulated; (C) event crime vs. episode crime; originating, fresh and legacy continuum-saturation crime; (D) idiopathic and derivative-supportive crime; (E) the relevance and irrelevance of civil law including fiduciary law; (F) parallel and alternative civil proceedings; (G) terminology to avoid including 'inheritance theft' and 'inheritance hijacking'
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I1: The perfect crime 1: (1) lawyers and law firms; the special situation of the outside lawyer (eg foreign lawyer, 'expert' counsel, notary etc.); (2) close and distant family; 'friends'; (3) advisers, insiders: lawyers, bookkeepers, accountants, financial planners, asset managers, doctors, caregivers, power-attorneys, business associates etc.; (4) accomplices before, during, after various facts; (5) real and unreal assets, liabilities; (6) fencing stolen assets through third parties; money laundering, asset laundering; (7) inaccessible, disappearing data; (8) deaf-eared police, prosecutors, regulators, legislators, tax officials, relevant others; (9) data vs evidence
I2: The perfect crime 2: (1) inheritance crime ordinarily impossible to detect; (2) inheritance crime extraordinarily possible to detect in some circumstances: techniques, expertise, experience, people; (3) the knowledgeable insider (testator's lawyer, testator's accountant, family member etc); (4) disregarding, dispensing with, discarding, demeaning, marginalising, discrediting the insider, the instruction manual; (5) the lawyer criminal: how he does it; (6) the heir criminal: how he does it before and after the testator's death; (7) other perpetrators: how they do it; gangs; (8) criminal and 'innocent' logs, ledgers, books, accounts, accounting, filings, bills, receipts, other primary source material; (9) the criminal law firm: all the props and trappings; severe pompous lawyer criminals, their acts, poses, pretexts, pretenses; the complex file; the 'closed' file; (10) duped and accomplice heirs, bookkeepers, accountants, auditors, insider lawyers, outside lawyers etc.; (10) criminal instructions and supporting material to, and advice from, duped and accomplice outside lawyers, accountants; (11) whistleblowing by heirs, family, lawyers etc.; (12) the victim heir's deficient, defective, incoherent, inarticulate complaints and presentations to inappropriate law enforcement; (13) indolent, inexpert, inexperienced, under-funded, under-resourced, dishonest law enforcement ("It's a civil matter" etc.); (14) estate assets and liabilities: the full story; inventories, accounts, tax; estate assets and liabilities materialising after estate management asserted 'closed'; (15) civil and criminal limitation periods, etc.; (16) multiple estates, multiple jurisdictions, multiple lawyers, multiple heirs, etc.
I3: The proper reception and handling of a credible cogent complaint: (1) "It's a civil matter": it is highly unusual to be able to sue on a crime, including inheritance crime; other detailed grounds for deploring this brush-off; (2) when to suspect the complainant, each complainee; (3) the detailed documented denunciation; the Inheritance Crime Examiner; (4) studying the complainant and his complaint; (5) when and how to go into action, in relation to whom and what; (6) determining persons, assets, liabilities, issues, locations of interest; (7) surveying, stabilising and securing multiple crime scenes
I4: Assets and liabilities: (1) of the estate; (2) of the criminal estate manager and her criminal associates; (3) of other persons of interest; (4) stolen, missing, criminally traded, laundered; (5) accounting, reporting; (6) tax aspects; (7) in foreign jurisdictions; (8) in multiple jurisdictions; (9) introduction to asset location and recovery; (10) special situations: boats, realty, planes, cash, securities, jewelry, art, antiques, precious metals, furniture, other valuables; (A) current; (B) contingent; (C) ascertained; (D) estimated, not ascertained; (E) titled, entitled, disentitled; (F) authenticated, evaluated, gross and net valued
I5: Inheritance crime by the criminal numbers: (1) books, logs, ledgers, draft and final financial statements, accounts, 'balance sheet' etc.; (2) multiple criminal versions at various times for multiple criminal purposes; (3) criminal and 'innocent' accounting and auditing in inheritance crime; (4) underlying primary source material and transactions; (5) underlying foundational criminality; (6) the criminal and innocent clerk, bookkeeper, accountant, forensic accountant, auditor, tax official: their witting and unwitting participation in what inheritance-related and other crime
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A1: Double and multiple succession: (1) same jurisdiction(s); (2) different jurisdiction(s); (3) foreign / alien jurisdictions; (4) state-federal aspects; (5) criminal infiltration of the host estate and arrogation of its business; (6) conspiracy with heirs in the same estate and in different estates; (7) relevant and irrelevant foreign civil and criminal proceedings; (8) criminal relevance of flagrant violations of relevant civil law
A2: Tax criminality: (1) by the testator; (2) by the estate manager; (3) by others
A3: Sophisticated data crime: (1) redactions; (2) consent requests; (3) cost estimates; (4) the discarded discredited unique instruction manual; (5) infiltration arrogation: the Rose scams, the Green scams
A4: Sophisticated estate management criminality: (1) sham qualifications; (2) criminally obtaining an appointment as estate manager; (3) criminally obtaining an ad col grant; (4) criminally obtaining a full grant; (5) criminally infiltrating an estate; (6) criminally obtaining vested estate assets; (7) fantasy estate management; (8) criminal chancery litigation + costs litigation; (9) subornation, corruption of police, regulators, judges, victim's lawyers etc; (10) criminal conspiracy with majority heirs vs. a minority heir; (11) various criminal devices including removal, displacement, resignation, substitution; consent requests, approval requests; cost estimates; sneaked-in 'accounts','balance sheets'; hiding assets and liabilities; bogus 'distribution' of stolen estate trust fund; theft by bogus fees and expenses, other professional financial crime
A5: Forensics: (1) office set-up: databases, spreadsheets, filing systems, classifications, shadow accounts, simulations, modelling, graphics, computing, sources, resources; (2) marshalling the data; (3) {present} and {absent} data: knowing what you don't know etc.; (4) extracting admissible evidence from the data; (5) search, seizure, sleuthing; (6) deconstructing, reconstructing, ascertaining the real estate: inventory, accounts, assets, liabilities, papers etc. (7) interviewing persons of interest; (8) special approaches re lawyer criminals; (9) drafting the complaint / indictment [MHNA offers pre-trial and trial courses to suit]
A6: Pre-prosecution: (1) data vs evidence, per issue per jurisdiction; (2) data and evidence problems, solutions; disappearing, adulterated, corrupted data; (3) the relevance and irrelevance of motive and motivation; (4) the crime scene mapped, modelled, multi-discipinarily, multi-dimensionally discretely and holistically; (5) persons and issues of interest, stage 2 including gangs, law firms, heirs, multi-jurisdictional aspects; collusion, conspiracy, innocent assistance; (6) are you absolutely certain? People, facts, crimes: checking, double-checking, triple-checking — and you've still got it wrong; defendant responses, retorts, defenses; the professional defendant; (7) the iron-clad draft and final initial / amended complaint / indictment: technical, gudda-free drafting; (8) involvement of other law enforcement personnel; (9) special problems when charging lawyers, accountants, estate managers, etc.; (10) continual securing of every crime scene and artefact; (11) locating, securing, recovering relevant devolved, dispersed, stolen, gifted, sold, hidden etc. assets; (12) interviewing persons of interest, especially lawyers, accountants, estate managers, heirs, doctors etc.; (13) examining, analysing, evaluating, valuing, elucidating assets, liabilities, figures, documents, events, episodes, issues, situations, relationships, transactions of interest; (14) trial rehearsing, simulating, modelling, costing, timing
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