# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百十七条の八 (Article 817-8) - 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: 第八百十七条の八 (Article 817-8)（監護の状況） — address `art-817-8` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-8 - 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. --- ### 第八百十七条の八（監護の状況） — (The Care Situation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-817-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-8 **第一項** 特別養子縁組を成立させるには、養親となる者が養子となる者を六箇月以上の期間監護した状況を考慮しなければならない。 art-817-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-8/par-1 The state of affairs after not less than six months of the persons becoming the adoptive parents caring for the person being adopted must be taken into consideration before a special adoption is allowed to be entered into. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の期間は、第八百十七条の二に規定する請求の時から起算する。ただし、その請求前の監護の状況が明らかであるときは、この限りでない。 art-817-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-8/par-2 The period referred to in the preceding paragraph is calculated beginning from the time of the request provided for in Article 817-2;provided, however, that this does not apply if the care situation is evident prior to the request. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-817-8/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第八百十七条の八第一項 (Article 817-8, paragraph (1)), art-817-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-8/par-1 - art-817-8/par-2: 第八百十七条の二 → 民法 第八百十七条の二 (Article 817-2), art-817-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百十七条の八第二項（監護の状況） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-8/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