Journal of Family and Adoption Law (JFAL)
The Journal of Family and Adoption Law (JFAL) is a distinguished peer-reviewed publication dedicated to advancing legal scholarship, policy development, and professional practice across the dynamic fields of family law, child welfare, guardianship, and adoption regulations. This authoritative journal brings together legal scholars, family law practitioners, social workers, judges, child rights advocates, academicians, policymakers, and researchers to explore evidence-based insights shaping family justice, child protection, and adoption processes.
What This Journal Covers: Key Focus Areas
The Journal of Family and Adoption Law (JFAL) addresses a broad spectrum of emerging and essential themes in family and child-related legal frameworks, including:
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Family Law, Marriage & Divorce: Covers marital rights, divorce processes, maintenance laws, domestic partnerships, and spousal legal protections.
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Child Custody, Guardianship & Welfare: Focuses on custody decisions, guardianship laws, child welfare systems, foster care, and protective interventions.
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Adoption Law & Child Placement: Addresses legal adoption procedures, intercountry adoption rules, eligibility norms, placement guidelines, and ethical practices.
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Domestic Violence & Protection Laws: Includes protection orders, abuse-prevention mechanisms, survivor remedies, and family-centered justice initiatives.
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Reproductive Rights & Surrogacy Law: Explores parentage laws, surrogacy agreements, reproductive technologies, donor rights, and ethical family formation.
Who Should Read the Journal
This journal serves a broad and diverse community of professionals, including:
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Family law advocates and legal practitioners engaged in litigation, counseling, and legal representation.
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Judges, tribunal members, and mediators handling family disputes and child welfare cases.
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Social workers and child protection professionals supporting vulnerable families and children.
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Policy makers and government officials involved in legal reform, child rights, and social justice policies.
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Students and educators specializing in family law, social policy, and welfare legislation.
Why It Matters
As legal systems evolve to meet the needs of modern families, vulnerable children, and diverse social structures, the Journal of Family and Adoption Law plays a pivotal role by:
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Publishing impactful research that strengthens family justice and child protection
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Promoting transparency, accountability, and ethical standards in adoption systems
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Supporting legal reforms that protect individuals and strengthen family relationships
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Encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration between law, social work, and public policy
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Enhancing access to knowledge that guides equitable and child-centered decision-making
With rigorous peer review, academic credibility, and global relevance, the journal contributes significantly to improving family law systems and advancing the rights and welfare of children worldwide.
Subscription & Access Options
The Journal of Family and Adoption Law (JFAL) provides flexible access options tailored for legal institutions, welfare organizations, research centers, and individual subscribers.
- Digital Access: A modern online platform offering instant access to current issues, archived volumes, and a fully searchable database of peer-reviewed articles.
- Print Edition: Professionally printed copies distributed to law schools, NGOs, family courts, social service agencies, libraries, and individual readers.
Subscription packages, institutional licenses, and bulk access options are available through the STM Journals distribution system.
Why Choose STM Journals?
STM Journals ensures:
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Rigorous peer review for credible and high-quality legal research
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Global reach facilitating widespread dissemination of family and child welfare knowledge
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Multiformat access supporting both digital and traditional academic environments
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A strong commitment to advancing family law, children’s rights, and social justice
For legal professionals, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners working to build stronger, safer, and more equitable family systems, the Journal of Family and Adoption Law (JFAL) is a trusted and invaluable resource.
About Journal
Journal of Family and Adoption Law (JFAL)
Editor-in-Chief:
Dr.M V Lakshmi Devi, Principal, K V Ranga Reddy Law College, AV College Campus, Gaganmahal, Domalguda, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Email id. [email protected]
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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.
Focus and Scope:
The Journal of Family & Adoption Law encircles the knowledge of Family laws and judgement. The Journal demands submissions of original, empirical, and theoretical papers as well as case studies and book reviews which cover diverse areas of family and adoption law that are listed as follows:
- Divorce and Separation
- Child Custody
- Child Support, including contribution for the child’s health, dental, optical, orthodontic and other health needs
- Visitation
- Alimony or spousal support
- Division of marital property, including the home and other real estate, retirement accounts, 401Ks, pensions, IRAs, stock options, State retirement, Military retirement
- Parent Relocation
- Adoption
- Contempt cases or cases to enforce prior court orders
- Multi-state disputes regarding children
- Separation Agreements
- Reconciliation Agreements
- Paternity and child-related disputes between unmarried persons
- Department of Social Services cases or investigations
- Annulment
- Name Change
- Grandparent Rights
- Restraining Orders
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Modification of prior Court Orders due to changes in circumstances
- International disputes regarding children
- Pre-nuptial or pre-marital agreements
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 [email protected]/ [email protected]
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.
Issue Purchase
Readers without a subscription may still purchase individual issues. The following payment options and fees are available.
Purchase Issue: 90.00 (USD)
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Editorial Board
Author’s Guidelines
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