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[Nolan Batman Trilogy] Was Bruce Wayne in any sort of legal trouble when returning to Gotham after being declared dead?

An interesting fact is that faking your death is actually not illegal in most states, and as far as I know there is no law about it at the Federal level. However, at a practical level, faking one's death does violate several other laws, such as tax evasion. Once he returns to Gotham City after being gone for seven years and officially declared dead, was there any sort of audit or investigation into Wayne and his time abroad?
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Bruce didn't fake his death, he just fucked off for a few years and didn't leave a forwarding address. There's likely some legal unentangling to be done-reestablishing that he's alive, asserting ownership over things that were left in trusts or to Alfred, potentially clearing up some back taxes for when he was "dead" and paying the requisite penalties. But being unreachable isn't a crime, especially when you're soul searching and not trying to avoid some obligation.