Federal Forfeiture Statutes

Hundreds of federal statutes trigger forfeiture, and there are many other statutes that prescribe the procedures for federal forfeiture cases, or define where the proceeds go and how they may be spent.

Under federal law, there are two kinds of forfeiture -- civil and criminal.  And there are two types of civil forfeiture procedure -- CAFRA and "Customs carve-out" (a group of forfeiture statutes that were exempted from the reach of CAFRA's procedural reforms improving due process for victims)  The government gets to choose which type of forfeiture procedures apply, when they file the forfeiture case.

Use the buttons on the left to go to these subdivisions:

• Federal forfeiture procedure
   
• How forfeiture proceeds may be spent
   
• Offenses that trigger federal forfeiture, arranged alphabetically by topic