“Illatom Adoption”
It is an adoption of a ‘son-in-law’ instead
of a ‘son’
This type of adoption prevails in some
particular communities that too in agricultural families of Tamil Nadu and
Andhra Pradesh.
The father-in-law adopts a son-in-law
instead of a son and gives his daughter in marriage and keeps his daughter and
son-in-law in his family.
The adopted son-in-law, after marrying the
daughter of his father-in-law stays in the family of the father-in-law and
helping him in all family management as if his son.
Though the adopted son-in-law is ‘not a son
of the adopted father-in-law’ like a coparcener but he has the same rights of a
natural son in all practical purposes, except the right of partition in the
father-in-law’s property.
He is called as ‘illatom son-in-law’.
It prevails only in some particular
communities of Hindus and no such custom among Christians and Muslims.
These customary incidents being well known
would not ordinarily be the subject of specific agreement, as it is settled by
the Privy Council’s decision in Krishnamma vs. Venkatasubbayya (1919) 37 MLJ 1:
LR 46IA 168: ILR 42 Mad 805(PC) that the practice of illatom affiliation is
frequently followed even when the family, into which the son-in-law had been
taken, has a natural son living.
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