Article 766-3Special Provisions Where There Is No Determination on the Sharing of Expenses Required for Child Custody
第七百六十六条の三（子の監護に要する費用の分担の定めがない場合の特例）
If the parents divorce by agreement without having made a determination on the sharing of expenses required for the custody of the child, the one of the parents who has continuously been primarily responsible for the custody of the child since the time of the divorce may, from the date of the divorce until the earliest of the following dates, demand of the other parent, at the end of each month, payment, as the sharing of expenses required for the custody of the child, of an amount calculated in accordance with a Ministry of Justice Order according to the number of children, taking into consideration the standard amount of expenses required to maintain the minimum standard of living of a child who is to be supported by the parents and other circumstances; provided, however, that the other parent may refuse to pay all or part of that amount upon proving that he or she is unable to pay it for lack of ability to pay or that his or her livelihood would be seriously impoverished by paying it.
父母が子の監護に要する費用の分担についての定めをすることなく協議上の離婚をした場合には、父母の一方であって離婚の時から引き続きその子の監護を主として行うものは、他の一方に対し、離婚の日から、次に掲げる日のいずれか早い日までの間、毎月末に、その子の監護に要する費用の分担として、父母の扶養を受けるべき子の最低限度の生活の維持に要する標準的な費用の額その他の事情を勘案して子の数に応じて法務省令で定めるところにより算定した額の支払を請求することができる。ただし、当該他の一方は、支払能力を欠くためにその支払をすることができないこと又はその支払をすることによってその生活が著しく窮迫することを証明したときは、その全部又は一部の支払を拒むことができる。
the date on which the parents made, by agreement, a determination on the sharing of expenses required for the custody of the child;
父母がその協議により子の監護に要する費用の分担についての定めをした日
the date on which a ruling on the sharing of expenses required for the custody of the child becomes final and binding;
子の監護に要する費用の分担についての審判が確定した日
the date on which the child attains the age of majority.
子が成年に達した日
The amount referred to in the preceding paragraph for the month containing the date of the divorce or the month containing the earliest of the dates set forth in the items of that paragraph is calculated on a daily basis, as provided by Ministry of Justice Order.
When the family court makes or changes a determination on the sharing of expenses required for the custody of the child pursuant to the provisions of Article 766, paragraph (2) or (3), it may, taking into consideration the ability to pay of the other parent who bears the obligation under the provisions of paragraph (1), order the exemption of all or part of that obligation, a deferment of payment, or any other proper disposition.
家庭裁判所は、第七百六十六条第二項又は第三項の規定により子の監護に要する費用の分担についての定めをし又はその定めを変更する場合には、第一項の規定による債務を負う他の一方の支払能力を考慮して、当該債務の全部若しくは一部の免除又は支払の猶予その他相当な処分を命ずることができる。