Journal of Family and Adoption Law

Journal of Family and Adoption Law

The Journal of Family and Adoption Law [3048-5053(e)] is a peer-reviewed hybrid open-access journal established in 2018, dedicated to exploring legal aspects related to family dynamics and adoption. The journal provides a platform for scholarly discussions on the rights and responsibilities within domestic relations. It acknowledges the impact of local, state, and federal laws on families, particularly in cases of separation, divorce, and adoption.

• Marriage and Matrimonial Law: Research on the legal formation, validity, registration, dissolution, and consequences of marriage, including personal laws, civil marriage, matrimonial rights and obligations, restitution of conjugal rights, judicial separation, and evolving concepts of marital relationships.
• Divorce, Separation, and Matrimonial Disputes: Studies on grounds for divorce, mutual-consent divorce, separation, maintenance, alimony, property division, matrimonial cruelty, desertion, mediation, settlement, and judicial approaches to resolving family disputes.
• Child Custody, Guardianship, and Parenting Rights: Research on custody standards, guardianship, parental responsibility, visitation, shared parenting, relocation disputes, child welfare, best-interest principles, and judicial assessment of parental fitness in custody proceedings.
• Child Support and Maintenance: Studies on maintenance obligations, determination of child support, paternity-related issues, medical and educational expenses, support for children with special needs, enforcement of maintenance orders, and financial responsibilities of parents.
• Adoption Law and Legal Procedures: Research on domestic and inter-country adoption, eligibility, consent, adoption procedures, legal status of adopted children, rights and duties of adoptive parents, adoption agencies, judicial oversight, and regulatory compliance.
• Inter-Country Adoption and International Family Law: Studies on cross-border adoption, recognition of adoption orders, international child protection, habitual residence, jurisdiction, conflicts of laws, international conventions, and cooperation between national authorities in family matters.
• Rights of Children and Child Protection: Research on the legal protection of children from abuse, neglect, exploitation, trafficking, abandonment, and family violence, including child welfare systems, institutional care, foster care, rehabilitation, and access to justice.
• Foster Care, Guardianship, and Alternative Family Care: Studies on foster care systems, kinship care, guardianship arrangements, institutional and non-institutional care, permanency planning, and legal frameworks for children who cannot remain with their biological families.
• Domestic Violence and Family Protection: Research on domestic abuse, intimate-partner violence, protection orders, residence rights, economic abuse, family-court interventions, victim support, and legal remedies designed to protect vulnerable family members.
• Maintenance, Alimony, and Economic Rights in Families: Studies on spousal maintenance, interim maintenance, permanent alimony, economic dependency, matrimonial property, inheritance-related family claims, and financial protection following separation or divorce.
• Reproductive Rights and Assisted Family Formation: Research on surrogacy, assisted reproductive technologies, parentage, donor conception, reproductive autonomy, legal motherhood and fatherhood, and emerging questions concerning technologically assisted family formation.
• Family Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Studies on mediation, conciliation, negotiation, counselling, collaborative processes, online dispute resolution, and other non-adversarial methods for resolving matrimonial, custody, maintenance, and adoption-related disputes.
• Personal Laws and Family Justice: Research on Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Parsi, secular, customary, and other personal-law systems governing marriage, divorce, maintenance, succession, guardianship, and adoption, including constitutional and comparative analysis.
• Gender, Equality, and Family Law: Studies on gender justice, equality within marriage, LGBTQ+ family rights, same-sex relationships, domestic partnerships, women’s rights, marital autonomy, discrimination, and the evolving legal recognition of diverse family structures.
• Technology and Family Law: Research on digital evidence in matrimonial disputes, online harassment, social media and family conflicts, privacy, electronic communication, digital assets, artificial intelligence, online mediation, and technology-assisted family justice.
• Comparative and International Family Law: Comparative research on marriage, divorce, custody, adoption, maintenance, reproductive rights, child protection, and family-court systems across jurisdictions, including international and transnational developments.
• Indian Family and Adoption Law: Research on Indian legislation, personal laws, judicial decisions, adoption frameworks, guardianship, maintenance, child custody, matrimonial remedies, family courts, and contemporary legal reforms affecting families and adopted children. The journal welcomes doctrinal, empirical, comparative, and interdisciplinary scholarship where family law or adoption law forms the central contribution.