# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百四十六条 (Article 846) - 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: 第八百四十六条 (Article 846)（後見人の解任） — address `art-846` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-846 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-846 - 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. --- ### 第八百四十六条（後見人の解任） — (Dismissal of the Guardian) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-846 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-846 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-846 **第一項** 後見人に不正な行為、著しい不行跡その他後見の任務に適しない事由があるときは、家庭裁判所は、後見監督人、被後見人若しくはその親族若しくは検察官の請求により又は職権で、これを解任することができる。 art-846/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-846/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-846/par-1 In the event of an unlawful act or grave misconduct on the part of the guardian or in the event of any other circumstances that render the guardian unfit for the duties of guardianship, the family court may replace the guardian at the request of the guardian supervisor, the ward, the relative thereof, or the public prosecutor, or sua sponte. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百五十二条第一項（委任及び後見人の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-852/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-852/par-1 - 民法 第八百七十六条の二第二項（保佐人及び臨時保佐人の選任等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-876-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-2/par-2 - 民法 第八百七十六条の三第二項（保佐監督人） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-876-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-3/par-2 - 民法 第八百七十六条の七第二項（補助人及び臨時補助人の選任等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-876-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-7/par-2 - 民法 第八百七十六条の八第二項（補助監督人） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-876-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-8/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