# 民法 / Civil Code — 第千二十八条 (Article 1028)

- Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号
- English title "Civil Code": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第千二十八条 (Article 1028)（配偶者居住権） — address `art-1028`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1028
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### 第千二十八条（配偶者居住権） — Spouse's Right of Residence
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-1028 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1028 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1028</sup>

    **第一項**  被相続人の配偶者（以下この章において単に「配偶者」という。）は、被相続人の財産に属した建物に相続開始の時に居住していた場合において、次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、その居住していた建物（以下この節において「居住建物」という。）の全部について無償で使用及び収益をする権利（以下この章において「配偶者居住権」という。）を取得する。ただし、被相続人が相続開始の時に居住建物を配偶者以外の者と共有していた場合にあっては、この限りでない。
    <sup>art-1028/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1028/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1028/par-1</sup>
    The spouse of the decedent (hereinafter in this Chapter referred to simply as the "spouse"), if the spouse was residing at the time the succession opened in a building that belonged to the property of the decedent, and if any of the following items applies, acquires the right to use and profit from the whole of the building in which the spouse was residing (hereinafter in this Section referred to as the "building of residence") free of charge (hereinafter in this Chapter referred to as the "spouse's right of residence"); provided, however, that this does not apply if the decedent co-owned the building of residence with a person other than the spouse at the time the succession opened.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

      **一**  遺産の分割によって配偶者居住権を取得するものとされたとき。
      <sup>art-1028/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1028/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1028/par-1/item-1</sup>
      if it is provided that the spouse is to acquire the spouse's right of residence through division of the estate;
      <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

      **二**  配偶者居住権が遺贈の目的とされたとき。
      <sup>art-1028/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1028/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1028/par-1/item-2</sup>
      if the spouse's right of residence is made the object of a legacy.
      <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **第二項**  居住建物が配偶者の財産に属することとなった場合であっても、他の者がその共有持分を有するときは、配偶者居住権は、消滅しない。
    <sup>art-1028/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1028/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1028/par-2</sup>
    Even if the building of residence comes to belong to the property of the spouse, the spouse's right of residence is not extinguished if another person holds a co-ownership interest therein.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **第三項**  第九百三条第四項の規定は、配偶者居住権の遺贈について準用する。
    <sup>art-1028/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1028/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1028/par-3</sup>
    The provisions of Article 903, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to a legacy of the spouse's right of residence.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-1028/par-3: 第九百三条第四項 → 民法 第九百三条第四項 (Article 903, paragraph (4)), art-903/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-903/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-903/par-4

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 不動産登記法 第八十一条の二第一項第二号（配偶者居住権の登記の登記事項） — https://japanlaw.org/en/real-property-registration-act/art-81-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-81-2/par-1/item-2
- 民法 附則第十条第一項（配偶者の居住の権利に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-10/par-1
- 民法 附則第十条第二項（配偶者の居住の権利に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-10/par-2

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-008, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11