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Studi di Kecamatan Gending Kabupaten Probolinggo

Abstract

This study aims to determine the distribution of inheritance from adoptive parents to their adopted children, especially those regulated according to customary law. while this research was conducted in Gending District, Probolinggo Regency.
Based on my opinion, Customary Inheritance Law regulates the process of forwarding and transferring assets, both tangible and intangible, from the heir while he is still alive and/or after he dies to his heirs.In the context of development and modernization, on the other hand, if there is a tendency to abolish customary law altogether, the work will be in vain, because customary law has been institutionalized firmly, unless the ethics of customary law has animates society and continues to develop, customary law in relation to source for materials in the formation of national laws. In accordance with the nature of nature that in this life we as humans at certain times need a sense of mutual need as God's fellow creatures, and with that we are met in a marriage, with the existence of a marriage,Children are a mandate given by Allah S.W.T to husband and wife to be cared for and educated so that these children can live independently and bring happiness to their parents, children are also expected to be able to protect the interests and care for their mother and father in old age, therefore the meaning of children importance in a family and society, still consider the absence of children in the family and happiness is not complete.

Keywords: position, adopted child, inheritance, property, adoptive parents