# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百九十八条 (Article 798) - 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: 第七百九十八条 (Article 798)（未成年者を養子とする縁組） — address `art-798` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-798 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-798 - 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. --- ### 第七百九十八条（未成年者を養子とする縁組） — (Adoption of a Minor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-798 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-798 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-798 **第一項** 未成年者を養子とするには、家庭裁判所の許可を得なければならない。ただし、自己又は配偶者の直系卑属を養子とする場合は、この限りでない。 art-798/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-798/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-798/par-1 A person must obtain the permission of the family court in order to adopt a minor; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person to be adopted is the lineal descendant of either the adoptive parent or the adoptive parent's spouse. 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 第八百七条第一項（養子が未成年者である場合の無許可縁組の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-807/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-807/par-1 - 民法 第八百十七条の二第二項（特別養子縁組の成立） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-2/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