THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHILD ADOPTION (ADOPTION) ARE REVIEWED FROM COMPILATION OF ISLAMIC LAW

Abstract

Child adoption or adoption in society is one of the solutions that many families who do not have children by married couples. They then adopt children both from their own family and from other people's children who have nothing to do with the husband or wife. The adoption of a child is seen as a way to continue the offspring, but with the development of the function the adopted child is no longer considered fully as a child of his own, but with limited consequences.

The purpose of this study is to find out how the legal force of child adoption according to the Compilation of Islamic Law, as well as what are the consequences of the law of child adoption according to the Compilation of Islamic Law.  The research uses a normative juridical method, namely a method of reviewing legislation and other legal materials related to the research.

Based on the results of the study, the legal force of child adoption in Islamic law has binding force for adopted children and adoptive parents. And as a result of the law of adoption according to the Compilation of Islamic Law, adopted children still have blood relations and inheritance relations with their biological parents, adopted children can use the name of their adoptive father after their name, there is no blood relationship between them. The new adopted child can inherit the inheritance of the adoptive parents if the adopted child does not obtain a mandatory will.