Investigating the nature of the legal system governing adoption in Iran and the United States

The institution of adoption and its governing regulations is one of the important issues that have been considered by policy makers and legislators. The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature of the legal system governing adoption in Iran and the United States.

This research is of theoretical type and the research method is descriptive-analytical and the method of data collection is library and has been done by referring to documents, books and articles.

The findings of the present study show that in the US legal system, the institution of adoption has been identified in four different situations. However, in the Iranian legal system, this institution is only predicted in a fixed state.

In order to organize this research, while observing the authenticity of the texts, honesty and fidelity have been observed.

The multiplicity of the nature of the adoption legal system prevails in the United States, but in contrast to the adoption system, the nature of Iran is uniform in nature. As a result, in cases of ambiguity, in the Iranian legal system, this ambiguity must be resolved in the light of the principles and rules governing the public law environment. And in the United States legal system, ambiguities, depending on what instance of the institution of adoption is being discussed, may be resolved in the light of the principles of public or private law.