# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百十七条の七 (Article 817-7) - 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: 第八百十七条の七 (Article 817-7)（子の利益のための特別の必要性） — address `art-817-7` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-7 - 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. --- ### 第八百十七条の七（子の利益のための特別の必要性） — (Particular Necessity in the Interests of the Child) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-817-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-7 **第一項** 特別養子縁組は、父母による養子となる者の監護が著しく困難又は不適当であることその他特別の事情がある場合において、子の利益のため特に必要があると認めるときに、これを成立させるものとする。 art-817-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-7/par-1 A special adoption is only to be allowed if it is exceedingly difficult or inappropriate for the parents of the person being adopted to care for the child or any other special circumstances exist, and the special adoption is found to be particularly necessary in the interests of the child. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百十七条の二第一項（特別養子縁組の成立） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-2/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