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Civil forfeiture in the United State Civil forfeiture in the United States , also called civil asset forfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture , [1] is a process in which law enforcement officers take assets from persons suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without necessarily charging the owners with wrongdoing. While civil procedure , as opposed to criminal procedure , generally involves a dispute between two private citizens, civil forfeiture involves a dispute between law enforcement and property such as a pile of cash or a house or a boat, such that the thing is suspected of being involved in a crime. To get back the seized property, owners must prove it was not involved in criminal activity. Sometimes it can mean a threat to seize property as well as the act of seizure itself. [2] Civil forfeiture is not considered to be an example of a criminal justice financial obligation . Proponents see civil forfeiture as a powerful tool to thwart criminal or