A colleague of mine has some inheritance in a European country; he's been taking trips out there every few years to try and get hold of it; every time he does,

A colleague of mine has some inheritance in a European country; he's been taking trips out there every few years to try and get hold of it; every time he does, the new guy who runs the place needs _some other_ document, some dozens of _other_ documents later, still no money. This is in part because said country's process requires a document that literally doesn't exist for the home country of either party in this inheritance; they won't give him the money, and they won't take the money, so it just sits there indefinitely.