# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百七条 (Article 907) - 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: 第九百七条 (Article 907)（遺産の分割の協議又は審判） — address `art-907` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-907 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-907 - 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. --- ### 第九百七条（遺産の分割の協議又は審判） — Agreement or Ruling on the Division of the Estate caption: machine translation, not official art-907 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-907 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-907 **第一項** 共同相続人は、次条第一項の規定により被相続人が遺言で禁じた場合又は同条第二項の規定により分割をしない旨の契約をした場合を除き、いつでも、その協議で、遺産の全部又は一部の分割をすることができる。 art-907/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-907/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-907/par-1 Unless the decedent has prevented them from doing so by will pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article or they have entered into a contract not to divide the estate pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article, coheirs may at any time divide all or part of the estate by agreement. machine translation, not official **第二項** 遺産の分割について、共同相続人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、各共同相続人は、その全部又は一部の分割を家庭裁判所に請求することができる。ただし、遺産の一部を分割することにより他の共同相続人の利益を害するおそれがある場合におけるその一部の分割については、この限りでない。 art-907/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-907/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-907/par-2 If an agreement between coheirs with regard to the division of the estate is not reached or if discussions toward such an agreement cannot be held, any one of the coheirs may file a request with the family court to divide all or part of the estate; provided, however, that this does not apply to the division of part of the estate in a case where dividing that part is likely to harm the interests of another coheir. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-907/par-1: 次条第一項 → 民法 第九百八条第一項 (Article 908, paragraph (1)), art-908/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-908/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-908/par-1 - art-907/par-1: 同条第二項 → 民法 第九百八条第二項 (Article 908, paragraph (2)), art-908/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-908/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-908/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百四条の二第四項（寄与分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-904-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-904-2/par-4 - 民法 第九百八条第四項（遺産の分割の方法の指定及び遺産の分割の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-908/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-908/par-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 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-006, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11