# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百七十八条 (Article 878) - 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: 第八百七十八条 (Article 878)（扶養の順位） — address `art-878` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-878 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-878 - 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. --- ### 第八百七十八条（扶養の順位） — (Order in Which Persons Support a Relative) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-878 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-878 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-878 **第一項** 扶養をする義務のある者が数人ある場合において、扶養をすべき者の順序について、当事者間に協議が調わないとき、又は協議をすることができないときは、家庭裁判所が、これを定める。扶養を受ける権利のある者が数人ある場合において、扶養義務者の資力がその全員を扶養するのに足りないときの扶養を受けるべき者の順序についても、同様とする。 art-878/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-878/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-878/par-1 In the event that several persons are under a duty to support a relative, if no agreement between the parties is reached with respect to the order in which they will support that relative or if discussions toward such an agreement cannot be held, the family court determines that order. The same applies if there are several persons entitled to receive such support and the financial capacity of the person under a duty to support them is insufficient to support them all. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百八条の二第一項第四号（子の監護費用の先取特権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-308-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-308-2/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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