# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百七条 (Article 807) - 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: 第八百七条 (Article 807)（養子が未成年者である場合の無許可縁組の取消し） — address `art-807` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-807 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-807 - 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. --- ### 第八百七条（養子が未成年者である場合の無許可縁組の取消し） — (Annulment of an Adoption Effected Without the Permission of the Family Court; Adopted Child Is a Minor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-807 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-807 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-807 **第一項** 第七百九十八条の規定に違反した縁組は、養子、その実方の親族又は養子に代わって縁組の承諾をした者から、その取消しを家庭裁判所に請求することができる。ただし、養子が、成年に達した後六箇月を経過し、又は追認をしたときは、この限りでない。 art-807/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-807/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-807/par-1 The adopted child, a natural relative thereof, or the person consenting to the adoption on the adopted child's behalf may request the family court to annul the adoption if it violates the provisions of Article 798;provided, however, that this does not apply if, after the adopted child attains the age of majority, six months are allowed to pass or the child ratifies the adoption. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-807/par-1: 第七百九十八条 → 民法 第七百九十八条 (Article 798), art-798 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-798 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-798 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百三条第一項（縁組の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-803/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-803/par-1 --- ## 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