# 民法 / Civil Code — 第十九条 (Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（審判相互の関係） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-19 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十九条（審判相互の関係） — (Relationship between Decisions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-19 **第一項** 後見開始の審判をする場合において、本人が被保佐人又は被補助人であるときは、家庭裁判所は、その本人に係る保佐開始又は補助開始の審判を取り消さなければならない。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-19/par-1 If the family court decides to commence a guardianship and the person in question is a person under curatorship or a person under assistantship, it must set aside the decision for commencement of the curatorship or commencement of assistance respecting that person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、保佐開始の審判をする場合において本人が成年被後見人若しくは被補助人であるとき、又は補助開始の審判をする場合において本人が成年被後見人若しくは被保佐人であるときについて準用する。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-19/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis if the court decides to commence a curatorship and the person in question is an adult ward or a person under assistantship or if the court decides to commence an assistance and the person in question is an adult ward or a person under curatorship. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-19/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-19/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第十九条第二項（審判相互の関係） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-19/par-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11