Accompanying CD-ROM contains "What is forfeitable?", a PDF chart matching each federal criminal offense with the corresponding forfeiture statue.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of asset forfeiture law in the United States -- The development of asset forfeiture law in the United States -- Starting a forfeiture case: the seizure of property for forfeiture -- Administrative forfeiture under CAFRA -- Judicial review of administrative forfeiture -- Civil forfeiture of real property -- Judicial forfeiture: filing the complaint, claim & answer -- Pre-trial procedural issues -- Dispositive pre-trial motions -- Standing -- The forfeiture trial: establishing forfeitability -- The innocent owner defense -- Post-trial and other issues -- Parallel and successive civil and criminal cases -- The nature of criminal forfeiture -- Indictment -- Seizure warrants and pre-trial restraining orders -- Guilty pleas and the forfeiture phase of the trial -- Preliminary order of forfeiture -- The final order of forfeiture and sentencing -- Forfeiture of property transferred to third parties -- Substitute assets -- Ancillary proceedings -- Appeals and miscellaneous post-sentencing topics -- Criminal proceeds -- Instrumentalities and facilitating property -- Property involved in money laundering -- The excessive fines clause.