# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百五十八条の二 (Article 958-2) - 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: 第九百五十八条の二 (Article 958-2)（特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与） — address `art-958-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-958-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九百五十八条の二（特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与） — (Distribution of the Estate to a Person with a Special Connection to the Decedent) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-958-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-958-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958-2 **第一項** 前条の場合において、相当と認めるときは、家庭裁判所は、被相続人と生計を同じくしていた者、被相続人の療養看護に努めた者その他被相続人と特別の縁故があった者の請求によって、これらの者に、清算後残存すべき相続財産の全部又は一部を与えることができる。 art-958-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-958-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958-2/par-1 In a case as referred to in the preceding Article, if the family court finds it to be reasonable and at the request of a person who shared living expenses with the decedent, who contributed to the medical treatment or care of the decedent, or who otherwise had a special connection with the decedent, the court may grant that person the residuum of the estate after liquidation, in whole or in part. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の請求は、第九百五十二条第二項の期間の満了後三箇月以内にしなければならない。 art-958-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-958-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958-2/par-2 The request referred to in the preceding paragraph must be filed within three months of the expiration of the period referred to in Article 952, paragraph (2). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-958-2/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第九百五十八条 (Article 958), art-958 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-958 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958 - art-958-2/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第九百五十八条の二第一項 (Article 958-2, paragraph (1)), art-958-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-958-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958-2/par-1 - art-958-2/par-2: 第九百五十二条第二項 → 民法 第九百五十二条第二項 (Article 952, paragraph (2)), art-952/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-952/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952/par-2 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百五十八条の二第二項（特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-958-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958-2/par-2 - 民法 第九百五十九条第一項（残余財産の国庫への帰属） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-959/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-959/par-1 - 民法 附則第四条第五項（相続財産の清算に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-4/par-5 - 相続税法 第四条第一項（遺贈により取得したものとみなす場合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/inheritance-tax-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000073/art-4/par-1 - 相続税法 附則第十四条第一項（相続税法及び租税特別措置法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/inheritance-tax-act/suppl-5031-24/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000073/suppl-5031-24/art-14/par-1 - 租税特別措置法 第六十九条の六第二項（特定土地等及び特定株式等に係る相続税の課税価格の計算の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-69-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-69-6/par-2 - 租税特別措置法 附則第十四条第一項（相続税法及び租税特別措置法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/suppl-5031-24/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/suppl-5031-24/art-14/par-1 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-007, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11