# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百九十二条 (Article 892) - 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: 第八百九十二条 (Article 892)（推定相続人の廃除） — address `art-892` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-892 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-892 - 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. --- ### 第八百九十二条（推定相続人の廃除） — (Disinheritance of a Presumptive Heir) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-892 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-892 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-892 **第一項** 遺留分を有する推定相続人（相続が開始した場合に相続人となるべき者をいう。以下同じ。）が、被相続人に対して虐待をし、若しくはこれに重大な侮辱を加えたとき、又は推定相続人にその他の著しい非行があったときは、被相続人は、その推定相続人の廃除を家庭裁判所に請求することができる。 art-892/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-892/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-892/par-1 A person leaving an estate may file a request with the family court to disinherit a presumptive heir (meaning a person who would become an heir if the succession were to open; the same applies hereinafter) for whom there is statutory reserved share, if the presumptive heir has abused or given grave insult to the person leaving the estate, or if there has been any other grave misconduct on the part of the presumptive heir. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 所得税法 第百五十一条の六第一項第二号（遺産分割等があつた場合の修正申告の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act/art-151-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000033/art-151-6/par-1/item-2 - 相続税法 第三十二条第一項第二号（更正の請求の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/inheritance-tax-act/art-32/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000073/art-32/par-1/item-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