The legal standing and rights of adopted children in west Malaysia / Noor Najmi Syukriah Mohamed @ Hanafi…[et al.]

Nowadays, the adoption of children becomes the global issue as people all over the world accept it in their society. They will adopt children in order to overcome their problem in difficulties to get a natural child or to help the needy. Due to this fact, there is a large number of adopted children in throughout the world. Regardless of whether or not, the rights of these adopted children have been left behind. People keep asking and questioning about the right to adopt them. However, they forget about the right after the adoption is granted by the court. As a consequence, the adopted children face a lot of problems. Their rights are being deprived as there is no awareness by the society. Therefore this research will focus on the adopted children's right to inherit property from their adopted parents and to determine the right of custody of the adopted children.