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A married woman can only give her consent to adoption by her husband. A married woman whose husband adopts a child is to be considered the mother. [3] If the child is adopted and there are more than one wife living in the household, then the senior wife is classified as the legal mother of the adopted child. [4]
The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA, enacted November 8, 1978 and codified at 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901–1963 [1]) is a United States federal law that governs jurisdiction over the removal of American Indian children from their families in custody, foster care, and adoption cases.
For children adopted outside India, guardianship is awarded with the expectation that the child will be quickly adopted by the adopted parents in the country where they legally reside. The Indian government regulates domestic and inter-country adoption of children in India.
As required by the 1993 Hague Convention, Article 4(b), children residing in India are always offered to Indian families before any foreigner. [4] However, after taking office in 2014, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi changed the law to put Non-Resident Indian (NRI) citizens and couples on par with Indians residing in India. [5]
Feminists, such as Nivedita Menon, argue that since the personal laws cover matters of marriage, inheritance and guardianship of children, and since all personal laws discriminate against women, the tension within the laws is a contradiction between the rights of women as individual citizens and those of religious communities as collective ...
The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010 to amend the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and the Special Marriage Act, 1954 to making divorce easier on the grounds of irretrievable breakdown of marriage, was introduced in the parliament in 2012. The Bill replaces the words "not earlier than six months" in Section 13B with the words "Upon receipt of a ...
YouTube beauty vlogger Hannah Cho, who was herself adopted from Korea as a baby, speaks to filmmakers about the complicated nature of identity as a transnational adoptee, as does Cameron Lee Small ...
However, after independence, efforts have been made to modernise various aspects of personal law and bring about uniformity among various religions. Recent reform has affected custody and guardianship laws, adoption laws, succession laws, and laws concerning domestic violence and child marriage.