Natural and Contractual Transfer of Property to the Adopted Child in US Law(With a View on Law of Iran)

Document Type : Academicm and Research

Authors

1 Professor, Department of Private and Islamic Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran.

2 Ph. D. in Private Law and University Lecturer

10.22091/csiw.2021.5740.1867

Abstract

The custody of children and adolescents without a guardian and with a bad guardian in Iranian law ‎has many similarities with the institution of adoption in American law, with the fundamental difference ‎that custody in Iranian law does not result in a real parent-child relationship between the guardian ‎and the adopted child, and just is resulted into some analogous rights and duties. This legal relationship ‎will have financial and non-financial effects on the relationship between the parties, one of the most ‎important financial effects has always been the possibility of inheritance between them or bequest of ‎property for each other.‎ The present study, focusing on American law and jurisprudence in this country, has tried to study the ‎various presumptions of inheritance between the adopted child and the guardian, the adopted child and ‎the guardian relatives, and the adopted child and his/her real parents. Furthermore, it examines the possibility of invoking the will concluded in favour of the adopted child, assuming the conclusion of a ‎direct will by the guardian or an indirect will by the relatives of the guardian. In doing so, there has ‎been a view on Iranian law and related codified laws.

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Comparative Studies on Islamic and Western Law
Volume 8, Issue 3 - Serial Number 29
September 2021
Pages 167-196

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