Adoption law
Law relating to adoption
Adoption law is the generic area of legal theory, policy making, legal practice and legal studies relating to law on adoption.
National adoption laws
National, or domestic, adoption laws deal with issues such as step-parent adoption, adoption by cohabitees, adoption by single parents and LGBT adoption.[1] Adoption laws in some countries may be affected by religious considerations such as adoption in Islam.
Specific laws
Laws vary widely from country to country and in the case of adoption in the United States, from state to state.
Intercountry adoption laws
Intercountry adoption laws vary widely.[2]
References
- ^ J. H. M. van Erp, Lars Peter Wunibald van Vliet Netherlands Reports to the Seventeenth International ... 2006 - Page 100 "... legal rules applying to adoption (step-parent adoption, adoption by cohabitees, adoption by single parents and same-sex parents) as well as with regard to the nature of adoption (intercountry adoption versus national adoption).... "
- ^ Cynthia R. Mabry, Lisa Kelly Adoption Law: Theory, Policy and Practice -- 2006 - Page 459 "Some prospective adoptive parents choose certain countries because the country's adoption laws are more favorable to foreign adopters. Other prospective parents choose a particular country because more infants are available immediately."
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Adoption and foster care
- Australia
- France
- Guatemala
- Italy
- Philippines
- United States
- South Korea
- Adopted child syndrome
- Adoption disclosure
- Adoption home study
- Adoption reunion registry
- Adoption tax credit
- Aging out
- Child abuse
- Child laundering
- Political abuse of psychiatry
- Closed adoption
- Cultural variations in adoption
- Disruption
- Genealogical bewilderment
- International adoption
- Interracial adoption
- Language of adoption
- LGBT adoption
- Open adoption
- Sealed birth records
- History of children in the military
- Access to Adoption Records Act (Ontario)
- Adoption Information Disclosure Act (Ontario)
- Adoption and Safe Families Act (US)
- Christian law of adoption (India)
- Dima Yakovlev Law (Russia)
- Foster Care Independence Act (US)
- Hague Adoption Convention
- Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (India)
- Indian Child Welfare Act (US)
- Islamic adoptional jurisprudence
- Putative father registry (US)
- Uniform Adoption Act (US)