Court as a means of dispute resolution in adoption cases in Malaysia: An appraisal of the Syariah Court’s decision on dispute relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children

Children generation are depending on adult as their guardian due to their vulnerability. They are the subject of custody and maintenance. Under Islamic law, parents are the most common guardian and are responsible for children’s custody and maintenance. Nevertheless, there are categories of child...

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Main Authors: Mohd, Azizah, A. Kadir, Nadhilah
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Published: Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws (AIKOL), International Islamic University Malaysia 2017
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spelling iium-586852017-10-11T03:23:11Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/58685/ Court as a means of dispute resolution in adoption cases in Malaysia: An appraisal of the Syariah Court’s decision on dispute relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children Mohd, Azizah A. Kadir, Nadhilah KBP Islamic Law KPG Malaysia Children generation are depending on adult as their guardian due to their vulnerability. They are the subject of custody and maintenance. Under Islamic law, parents are the most common guardian and are responsible for children’s custody and maintenance. Nevertheless, there are categories of children who are parentless or not living with their biological parents due to certain problems or situation like adoption. It follows that, as normal biological children, adopted children are also entitled to custody and maintenance in particular from their adoptive parents. The issues however arise whenever there is failure or neglect of care and maintenance of adopted children especially whenever the adopted children reached certain ages or in the event of divorce of the adoptive parents. This paper deals with court as a means to resolve dispute in matters relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children especially in Syariah Court in Malaysia. Examination will focus on Syariah Court’s decision when dealing with those issues. A comparison with other jurisdiction where relevant and necessary will also be done especially to provide a good findings for the paper Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws (AIKOL), International Islamic University Malaysia 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58685/1/58685.pdf Mohd, Azizah and A. Kadir, Nadhilah (2017) Court as a means of dispute resolution in adoption cases in Malaysia: An appraisal of the Syariah Court’s decision on dispute relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children. In: International Conference on Dispute Resolution 2017 - Modern Trends in Effective Dispute Resolution, 9th-10th August 2017, Kuala Lumpur. https://icdr2017.org/
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Mohd, Azizah
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Court as a means of dispute resolution in adoption cases in Malaysia: An appraisal of the Syariah Court’s decision on dispute relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children
description Children generation are depending on adult as their guardian due to their vulnerability. They are the subject of custody and maintenance. Under Islamic law, parents are the most common guardian and are responsible for children’s custody and maintenance. Nevertheless, there are categories of children who are parentless or not living with their biological parents due to certain problems or situation like adoption. It follows that, as normal biological children, adopted children are also entitled to custody and maintenance in particular from their adoptive parents. The issues however arise whenever there is failure or neglect of care and maintenance of adopted children especially whenever the adopted children reached certain ages or in the event of divorce of the adoptive parents. This paper deals with court as a means to resolve dispute in matters relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children especially in Syariah Court in Malaysia. Examination will focus on Syariah Court’s decision when dealing with those issues. A comparison with other jurisdiction where relevant and necessary will also be done especially to provide a good findings for the paper
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mohd, Azizah
A. Kadir, Nadhilah
author_facet Mohd, Azizah
A. Kadir, Nadhilah
author_sort Mohd, Azizah
title Court as a means of dispute resolution in adoption cases in Malaysia: An appraisal of the Syariah Court’s decision on dispute relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children
title_short Court as a means of dispute resolution in adoption cases in Malaysia: An appraisal of the Syariah Court’s decision on dispute relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children
title_full Court as a means of dispute resolution in adoption cases in Malaysia: An appraisal of the Syariah Court’s decision on dispute relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children
title_fullStr Court as a means of dispute resolution in adoption cases in Malaysia: An appraisal of the Syariah Court’s decision on dispute relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children
title_full_unstemmed Court as a means of dispute resolution in adoption cases in Malaysia: An appraisal of the Syariah Court’s decision on dispute relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children
title_sort court as a means of dispute resolution in adoption cases in malaysia: an appraisal of the syariah court’s decision on dispute relating to custody and maintenance of adopted children
publisher Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws (AIKOL), International Islamic University Malaysia
publishDate 2017
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/58685/
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