About the Journal
| Title | Journal of Family & Adoption Law |
| DOI | 10.37591/JFAL |
| Frequency | Twice a Year |
| ISSN | 3048-5053 |
| Publisher | Law Journals ( An Imprint of Consortium eLearning Network Pvt Ltd) |
| Chief Editor | Dr. Ananya Bibave |
| Copyright | Journal of Family & Adoption Law (JFAL) |
| Starting Year | 2018 |
| Subject | Family & Adoption Law |
| Language | English |
| Publication format | Online |
| Phone No. | +91-120-4781200 |
| Email id | lawjournals@celnet.in |
| Mobile No. | +91-9218093700 |
| Website | https://www.lawjournals.celnet.in |
| Address | A-118, 1st Floor, Sector-63, Noida, Uttar Pradesh-201301, India |
Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF): 3.938
Index Copernicus (ICV) 2024 = 60.42
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Journal’s Summary
This Journal concerns the rights and obligations of spouses, children and other domestic relations. City, State, and federal laws can affect families in several ways. Many marriages end in the way of separation or divorce. When a couple decides to dissolve a marriage, one of the spouses will file petition in the court for a divorce. This means that the court can legally end the marriage, divide marital assets between the spouses, grant custody of children to one or both spouses and impose child and spousal support obligations, if applicable. It's a biannual journal (frequency January-June and July-December), started in 2018.
Focus & Scope
- Marriage and Matrimonial Law: Research on the legal formation, validity, registration, dissolution, and consequences of marriage, including personal laws, civil marriage, matrimonial rights and obligations, restitution of conjugal rights, judicial separation, and evolving concepts of marital relationships.
- Divorce, Separation, and Matrimonial Disputes: Studies on grounds for divorce, mutual-consent divorce, separation, maintenance, alimony, property division, matrimonial cruelty, desertion, mediation, settlement, and judicial approaches to resolving family disputes.
- Child Custody, Guardianship, and Parenting Rights: Research on custody standards, guardianship, parental responsibility, visitation, shared parenting, relocation disputes, child welfare, best-interest principles, and judicial assessment of parental fitness in custody proceedings.
- Child Support and Maintenance: Studies on maintenance obligations, determination of child support, paternity-related issues, medical and educational expenses, support for children with special needs, enforcement of maintenance orders, and financial responsibilities of parents.
- Adoption Law and Legal Procedures: Research on domestic and inter-country adoption, eligibility, consent, adoption procedures, legal status of adopted children, rights and duties of adoptive parents, adoption agencies, judicial oversight, and regulatory compliance.
- Inter-Country Adoption and International Family Law: Studies on cross-border adoption, recognition of adoption orders, international child protection, habitual residence, jurisdiction, conflicts of laws, international conventions, and cooperation between national authorities in family matters.
- Rights of Children and Child Protection: Research on the legal protection of children from abuse, neglect, exploitation, trafficking, abandonment, and family violence, including child welfare systems, institutional care, foster care, rehabilitation, and access to justice.
- Foster Care, Guardianship, and Alternative Family Care: Studies on foster care systems, kinship care, guardianship arrangements, institutional and non-institutional care, permanency planning, and legal frameworks for children who cannot remain with their biological families.
- Domestic Violence and Family Protection: Research on domestic abuse, intimate-partner violence, protection orders, residence rights, economic abuse, family-court interventions, victim support, and legal remedies designed to protect vulnerable family members.
- Maintenance, Alimony, and Economic Rights in Families: Studies on spousal maintenance, interim maintenance, permanent alimony, economic dependency, matrimonial property, inheritance-related family claims, and financial protection following separation or divorce.
- Reproductive Rights and Assisted Family Formation: Research on surrogacy, assisted reproductive technologies, parentage, donor conception, reproductive autonomy, legal motherhood and fatherhood, and emerging questions concerning technologically assisted family formation.
- Family Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Studies on mediation, conciliation, negotiation, counselling, collaborative processes, online dispute resolution, and other non-adversarial methods for resolving matrimonial, custody, maintenance, and adoption-related disputes.
- Personal Laws and Family Justice: Research on Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Parsi, secular, customary, and other personal-law systems governing marriage, divorce, maintenance, succession, guardianship, and adoption, including constitutional and comparative analysis.
- Gender, Equality, and Family Law: Studies on gender justice, equality within marriage, LGBTQ+ family rights, same-sex relationships, domestic partnerships, women’s rights, marital autonomy, discrimination, and the evolving legal recognition of diverse family structures.
- Technology and Family Law: Research on digital evidence in matrimonial disputes, online harassment, social media and family conflicts, privacy, electronic communication, digital assets, artificial intelligence, online mediation, and technology-assisted family justice.
- Comparative and International Family Law: Comparative research on marriage, divorce, custody, adoption, maintenance, reproductive rights, child protection, and family-court systems across jurisdictions, including international and transnational developments.
- Indian Family and Adoption Law: Research on Indian legislation, personal laws, judicial decisions, adoption frameworks, guardianship, maintenance, child custody, matrimonial remedies, family courts, and contemporary legal reforms affecting families and adopted children. The journal welcomes doctrinal, empirical, comparative, and interdisciplinary scholarship where family law or adoption law forms the central contribution.
Readership: Graduate/ Postgraduate students, Research Scholars, Faculties, Industrialists, Independent Professionals, Government institutions
Indexing: The Journal is indexed in Google Scholar
Submission of Paper: All contributions to the journal are rigorously refereed and are selected on the basis of quality and originality of the work. The journal publishes the most significant new research papers or any other original contribution in the form of reviews and reports on new concepts in all areas pertaining to its focus and scope, thus ensuring its scientific priority and significance.
Manuscripts are invited from academicians, students, research scholars, industrialists, independent professionals and faculties for publication consideration.
Papers are accepted for editorial consideration through email lawjournals@celnet.in/ cle@celnet.in
Subject: Family, Law, Adoption Law
Plagiarism: All the articles will be checked through Plagiarism Software before publication.
Abbreviation: JFAL
Frequency: Two issues per year
Peer Reviewed Policy: Peer review is the most important part of the scientific publication process. Peer review is basically the process of engaging experts to review the articles submitted for publication in journals, this is done in order to validate the research and to enhance the quality of the articles that are published in the journal.
The peer review process is actually a demarcating line that decides what a research is and what is merely a hypothesis. This process screens the articles for their originality or work, their relevance to the previously published work and does the work meet the required standard so as to be published as a research article. The bottom line to conduct a peer review is to eliminate the possibility that science is just another opinion.
Basic design of a peer review process:
1) The process begins with the submission of article to the journal
2) The first step begins as the editor of the journal checks if the article falls under the focus and scope of the journal. If the article does not fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is rejected with feedback and necessary changes to the author, if the article do fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is forwarded to the next step of review.
3) Here the reviewer checks for the originality, validity, significance, theory , evidence and other parameters based on the guidelines of the editors and yardsticks to measure the quality of the article.
4) Reviewer then make necessary comments and send the paper back to the editorial board, a reviewer may accept the paper as it is, reject or suggest changes in the manuscript, this information is conveyed to the authors
5) Editor of the journal then make final decision to publish the article based on the reviewers comments. And finalize the time frame for publishing the article.
6) Finally the accepted articles appear in the publication.
For further details on the publishing process and guidelines that an author and editor should follow, and to know more about the yardstick of the reviewers we would suggest you to go through the Author and Editors Guidelines.
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Publisher: Law Journals, an imprint of Consortium E-Learning Network Pvt. Ltd.
Address: A-118, 1st Floor, Sector-63, Noida, Uttar Pradesh-201301, India
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Editor-in-Chief:
Dr.Ananya Bibave
Principal,
Modern College of Law, Anand Industrial Estate, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Email: ananya.bibave@modernlawcollege.org Mobile No- +91 94204 95288
