The guardian of an adult, in undertaking administration in respect of the daily life, medical treatment or care, and management of the property of the adult ward, must respect the wishes of the adult ward and act with consideration for the ward's mental and physical condition and circumstances in the ward's daily life.

①The guardian manages the ward's property and represents the ward in juridical acts involving the same.

②The provisions of the proviso to Article 824 apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph.

①If an adult ward has multiple guardians, the family court may determine, sua sponte, that the guardians must exercise their authority jointly or according to a division of labor.

②The family court may rescind, sua sponte, a determination under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

③If an adult ward has multiple guardians, it is sufficient for a manifestation of intention by a third party to be made to one of them.

The guardian of an adult must obtain the permission of the family court to sell, rent out, cancel the lease on, establish a mortgage on, or otherwise similarly dispose, on the adult ward's behalf, of a building or site being used as the ward's residence.

The provisions of Article 826 apply mutatis mutandis to a guardian; provided, however, that this does not apply if there is a guardian supervisor.

①If the family court finds it necessary for an adult guardian to perform the guardian's duties, it may, at the request of the adult guardian, commission a person engaged in the business of delivering correspondence to deliver to the adult guardian, for a specified period, postal items addressed to the adult ward or correspondence delivery items prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators (Act No. 99 of 2002) (referred to as "postal items, etc." in the following Article).

②The period of the commission prescribed in the preceding paragraph may not exceed six months.

③If circumstances change after a ruling under paragraph (1) has been issued, the family court may revoke or modify the commission prescribed in that paragraph, at the request of the adult ward, the adult guardian, or the adult guardian's supervisor, or sua sponte; provided, however, that in the ruling for the modification, the period determined in the ruling under that paragraph may not be extended.

④When the duties of the adult guardian have ended, the family court must revoke the commission prescribed in paragraph (1).

①When an adult guardian receives postal items, etc. addressed to the adult ward, the adult guardian may open and view them.

②An adult guardian must promptly deliver to the adult ward those of the postal items, etc. referred to in the preceding paragraph that the adult guardian has received which do not relate to the adult guardian's duties.

③An adult ward may request the adult guardian to allow inspection of the postal items, etc. referred to in paragraph (1) that the adult guardian has received (excluding those delivered to the adult ward under the preceding paragraph).

①Upon beginning in the role of guardian, the guardian must estimate the amount of money that will be required in annual expenditures for the daily life, education, medical treatment and care, and management of the ward's property.

②A guardian pays the expenses necessary for administering the guardianship out of the ward's property.

The family court may grant reasonable remuneration to a guardian out of the ward's property, based on the financial capacity of the guardian and the ward and other circumstances.

①At any time, the guardian supervisor or the family court may demand that the guardian submit a report on the guardianship administration or an inventory of property, and may investigate the guardianship administration or the financial status of the ward.

②The family court may order any necessary disposition with respect to the management of the ward's property or other guardianship administration, at the request of the guardian supervisor, the ward, the relative thereof, or any other interested person, or sua sponte.

A guardian must obtain the consent of the guardian supervisor, if there is one, in order to do business or perform an act set forth in one of the items of Article 13, paragraph (1) on behalf of a ward, or in order to give consent for a minor ward to do the same; provided, however, that this does not apply to the receipt of principal set forth in Article 13, paragraph (1), item (i).

①The ward or guardian may disaffirm an act conducted or consented to by the guardian in violation of the provisions of the preceding Article. The provisions of Article 20 apply mutatis mutandis in such a case.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude the application of the provisions of Article 121 through Article 126.

①If a guardian acquires the property of the ward or the right of a third party against the ward, the ward may disaffirm that acquisition. In this case, the provisions of Article 20 apply mutatis mutandis.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude the application of the provisions of Article 121 through Article 126.

①The guardian of a minor acts in place of the minor ward in exercising any parental authority the ward holds.

②The provisions of Article 853 through Article 857 and Article 861 through Article 866 apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph.

If the person exercising parental authority does not have the right to manage the minor's property, the guardian of that minor has authority only over the minor's property.

The provisions of Article 644 and Article 830 apply mutatis mutandis to guardianship.

When the duties of a guardian come to an end, the guardian or the heir thereof must account for the guardian's management of the ward's property (hereinafter referred to as "accounting for the guardianship") within two months; provided, however, that this period may be extended with the approval of the family court.

Accounting for the guardianship must be done in the presence of the guardian supervisor, if there is one.

①A minor ward may rescind a contract entered into with the guardian or the successor thereof after attaining the age of majority but before the accounting for the guardianship has been finalized. The same applies to a unilateral juridical act that the person performs against the guardian of a minor or the successor thereof.

②The provisions of Article 20 and Article 121 through Article 126 apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph.

①Interest must be calculated to accrue on money to be refunded by the guardian to the ward and money to be refunded by the ward to the guardian from the time the accounting for the guardianship is finalized.

②If the guardian expends the ward's money for the benefit of the guardian, interest must be calculated to accrue on that money from the time of the expenditure. In such a case, if further damage is incurred by the ward, the guardian is liable for compensation.

If an adult ward dies, an adult guardian may, when necessary, perform the acts set forth in the following items until an heir becomes able to administer the estate, except where it is clear that doing so would be contrary to the intention of the heir of the adult ward; provided, however, that to perform the act set forth in item (iii), the adult guardian must obtain the permission of the family court.

The provisions of Article 654 and Article 655 apply mutatis mutandis to guardianship.

①The provisions of Article 832 apply mutatis mutandis to the extinctive prescription of a claim that arises between the guardian or guardian supervisor and the ward in respect of the guardianship.

②If a juridical act is canceled pursuant to the provisions of Article 872, the period of extinctive prescription referred to in the preceding paragraph commences from the time of that cancellation.