# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百六十七条 (Article 767) - 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: 第七百六十七条 (Article 767)（離婚による復氏等） — address `art-767` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-767 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-767 - 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. --- ### 第七百六十七条（離婚による復氏等） — (Reversion to Previous Surname upon Divorce) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-767 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-767 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-767 **第一項** 婚姻によって氏を改めた夫又は妻は、協議上の離婚によって婚姻前の氏に復する。 art-767/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-767/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-767/par-1 The surname of the husband or wife who changed surnames upon marriage reverts to the surname used before marriage upon divorce by agreement. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により婚姻前の氏に復した夫又は妻は、離婚の日から三箇月以内に戸籍法の定めるところにより届け出ることによって、離婚の際に称していた氏を称することができる。 art-767/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-767/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-767/par-2 The husband or wife whose surname has reverted to the surname used before marriage pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may take the surname used at the time of divorce by filing a registration pursuant to the Family Register Act within three months of the day of divorce. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-767/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第七百六十七条第一項 (Article 767, paragraph (1)), art-767/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-767/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-767/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 戸籍法 第十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/family-register-act/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000224/art-19/par-3 - 戸籍法 第七十五条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/family-register-act/art-75-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000224/art-75-2/par-1 - 戸籍法 第七十七条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/family-register-act/art-77-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000224/art-77-2/par-1 - 民法 第七百四十九条第一項（離婚の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-749/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-749/par-1 - 民法 第七百六十七条第二項（離婚による復氏等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-767/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-767/par-2 - 民法 第七百七十一条第一項（協議上の離婚の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-771/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-771/par-1 - 民法 附則第二項（民法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3511-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3511-66/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 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4275/tb), 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