Article 226Commencement of Succession Before Order commencing Bankruptcy Proceedings is Issued
第二百二十六条（破産手続開始の決定前の相続の開始）
When succession has commenced with regard to a debtor after a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings is filed and before an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued, the court may issue an order to continue the bankruptcy proceedings against the inherited property upon the petition of an creditor of the succession, a legatee, an heir, an administrator of the inherited property, liquidator of the inherited property, or executor.
裁判所は、破産手続開始の申立て後破産手続開始の決定前に債務者について相続が開始したときは、相続債権者、受遺者、相続人、相続財産の管理人、相続財産の清算人又は遺言執行者の申立てにより、当該相続財産についてその破産手続を続行する旨の決定をすることができる。
The petition for continuation prescribed in the preceding paragraph must be filed within one month after the succession commences.
前項に規定する続行の申立ては、相続が開始した後一月以内にしなければならない。
The bankruptcy proceedings prescribed in paragraph (1) is closed, if a petition for continuation prescribed in paragraph (1) is not filed within the period referred to in the preceding paragraph, when the period expires, and if a petition for continuation prescribed in paragraph (1) is made within the period stated in the preceding paragraph and a judicial decision to dismiss the petition becomes final and binding, when the decision becomes final and binding.
An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision to dismiss the petition for continuation prescribed in paragraph (1).
第一項に規定する続行の申立てを却下する裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。
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