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Article 45Parties to an Action to Establish Paternity

第四十五条（父を定めることを目的とする訴えの当事者等）

A child, mother, or the mother's spouse from an earlier or later marriage may file an action to establish paternity pursuant to the provisions of Article 773 of the Civil Code.

子、母、母の前婚の配偶者又はその後婚の配偶者は、民法第七百七十三条の規定により父を定めることを目的とする訴えを提起することができる。

In an action as referred to in the preceding paragraph that a person set forth in one of the following items files, the person specified in that item is to be named as the defendant; after the person in question has died, the public prosecutor is to be named as the defendant:

次の各号に掲げる者が提起する前項の訴えにおいては、それぞれ当該各号に定める者を被告とし、これらの者が死亡した後は、検察官を被告とする。

the child or mother: the mother's spouses from an earlier and later marriage (or, after one of them has died, the other one);

子又は母　母の前婚の配偶者及びその後婚の配偶者（その一方が死亡した後は、他の一方）

the mother's spouse from an earlier marriage: the mother's spouse from a later marriage; or

母の前婚の配偶者　母の後婚の配偶者

the mother's spouse from a later marriage: the mother's spouse from an earlier marriage.

母の後婚の配偶者　母の前婚の配偶者

The provisions of Article 26 apply mutatis mutandis if a person specified in one of the items of the preceding paragraph is named as a defendant pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and then dies.

第二十六条の規定は、前項の規定により同項各号に定める者を当該訴えの被告とする場合においてこれらの者が死亡したときについて準用する。

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Article 45Parties to an Action to Establish Paternity