Let’s say that you buy a home in cash and have 100% paid off. Could you still lose it somehow?

  • brianorca@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    There are two kinds of asset forfeiture: civil and criminal. Criminal would be what you describe, if you are convicted they can seize any property involved in the crime. Civil asset forfeiture is something else, and it often abused to take things where the crime is only suspected. (It was originally supposed to be used to take property involved in a crime, such as an empty pirate ship, where the owner is not known.)