Family-based adoption and fostering in Armenian law and practice

Abstract

This paper will try to focus on children’s rights in case of adoption and fostering. Currently, children deal with lots of legal and social matters during adoption and fostering, which may touch their rights, protection and freedoms. These problems occur especially in case of intercountry adoptions, when the family adopts a child from a country other than their own through permanent legal means and brings that child to their country of residence to live with them permanently. Intercountry adoption is governed by both the laws of the country in which the child lives and the country in which the adoptive parents live. By analyzing the intercountry adoption process deeply, we may face many legal gaps that exist in the legal system both in domestic jurisdiction and in foreign as well. This paper will examine challenges for intercountry adoption cases.