When a family court finds it to be necessary in order to make a ruling of the division of an estate, it may order an heir to put the whole or part of the estate up for auction and thereby convert it into cash.
家庭裁判所は、遺産の分割の審判をするため必要があると認めるときは、相続人に対し、遺産の全部又は一部を競売して換価することを命ずることができる。
When a family court finds it to be necessary and appropriate in order to make a ruling of the division of an estate, it may hear the opinion of an heir and order the heir to sell the whole or part of the estate by a private contract and thereby convert it into cash; provided, however, that this does not apply if any of the coheirs manifests the intention that the sale should be conducted by auction.
家庭裁判所は、遺産の分割の審判をするため必要があり、かつ、相当と認めるときは、相続人の意見を聴き、相続人に対し、遺産の全部又は一部について任意に売却して換価することを命ずることができる。ただし、共同相続人中に競売によるべき旨の意思を表示した者があるときは、この限りでない。
When a judicial decision made under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs (hereinafter referred to as a "judicial decision to order a conversion into cash" in this Article) has become final and binding, and the grounds for making the judicial decision to order a conversion into cash have ceased to exist or otherwise the circumstances have changed thereafter, the family court may revoke the judicial decision upon the petition of an heir or by its own authority.
前二項の規定による裁判（以下この条において「換価を命ずる裁判」という。）が確定した後に、その換価を命ずる裁判の理由の消滅その他の事情の変更があるときは、家庭裁判所は、相続人の申立てにより又は職権で、これを取り消すことができる。
Notice of a judicial decision to order a conversion into cash must be given to the parties to an adjudication case for the division of an estate, beyond the persons prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 81, paragraph (1).
換価を命ずる裁判は、第八十一条第一項において準用する第七十四条第一項に規定する者のほか、遺産の分割の審判事件の当事者に告知しなければならない。
An heir may file an immediate appeal against a judicial decision to order a conversion into cash.
相続人は、換価を命ずる裁判に対し、即時抗告をすることができる。
When a family court makes a judicial decision to order a conversion into cash, and if the administrator of property as set forth in Article 200, paragraph (1) has not been appointed, it must appoint the administrator.
A family court may grant reasonable remuneration from the estate, to an heir who is ordered to conduct a conversion into cash by a judicial decision to order a conversion into cash.
家庭裁判所は、換価を命ずる裁判により換価を命じられた相続人に対し、遺産の中から、相当な報酬を与えることができる。
Changes by (Act No. 45 of 2026)
The provisions of Article 125, as well as the provisions of Articles 27 through 29 of the Civil Code (excluding Article 27, paragraph (2) of the Code) apply mutatis mutandis to an administrator of property appointed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (6). In this case, the term "property of an adult under guardianship" in Article 125, paragraph (3) is deemed to be replaced with "estate".
第百二十五条の規定及び民法第二十七条から第二十九条まで（同法第二十七条第二項を除く。）の規定は、第六項の規定により選任した財産の管理者について準用する。この場合において、第百二十五条第三項中「成年被後見人の財産」とあるのは、「遺産」と読み替えるものとする。
adjudication case for the division of an estatemachine translation
「遺産の分割の審判事件」
A case in which the family court decides how a deceased person's estate is to be divided among the heirs (遺産の分割), the matter in row 12 of Appended Table 2 (別表第二).
Defined inArticle 191, paragraph (2)
judicial decision to order a conversion into cash
「換価を命ずる裁判」
In Article 194, a judicial decision ordering the heirs to convert all or part of an estate into cash, by auction or by private sale, which the family court makes where this is needed for its ruling on the division of the estate (遺産の分割).
Short name set inArticle 194, paragraph (3)· applies only in this article