# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百九十六条 (Article 796) - 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: 第七百九十六条 (Article 796)（配偶者のある者の縁組） — address `art-796` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-796 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-796 - 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. --- ### 第七百九十六条（配偶者のある者の縁組） — (Adoption Involving a Spouse) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-796 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-796 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-796 **第一項** 配偶者のある者が縁組をするには、その配偶者の同意を得なければならない。ただし、配偶者とともに縁組をする場合又は配偶者がその意思を表示することができない場合は、この限りでない。 art-796/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-796/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-796/par-1 One spouse may only adopt or be adopted by another with the consent of the other spouse; provided, however, that this does not apply if one spouse adopts or is adopted by another together with the other spouse, or if the other spouse is incapable of manifesting an intention. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百条第一項（縁組の届出の受理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-800/par-1 - 民法 第八百六条の二第一項（配偶者の同意のない縁組等の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-806-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-806-2/par-1 - 民法 第八百六条の二第二項（配偶者の同意のない縁組等の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-806-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-806-2/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