KEDUDUKAN WARIS ANAK ANGKAT MENURUT HUKUM WARIS ADAT BALI

Abstract

Children adoption already existed since a long time ago. However, the position of adopted children weredifferent from one region to another region in Indonesia. Bali people followed patrilineal kinship. It made theposition of a son hold a very important role. Therefore each family really wanted to have a son. For the familiesthat did not a have a son, they adopted a son. There were two kinds of adoption in Bali custom. They were: first,children adoption followed with tradition ceremony ‘meperas’ or Widi Widana, witnessed by custom chief andpeople or society; second, children adoption which was not followed withtradition ceremony ‘meperas’ or WidiWidana.The first adoption made the adopted son break the relation with his biological parents, and he cameinto his adopting father’s family. In the case of heir, he was not the heirs of his biological father but he was theheirs of his adopting father.