# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第四十一条 (Article 41) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-41. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 人事訴訟法 (Personal Status Litigation Act), 平成十五年法律第百九号 - English title "Personal Status Litigation Act": 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: 第四十一条 (Article 41)（嫡出否認の訴えの当事者等） — address `art-41` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-41 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-41 - 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. --- ### 第四十一条（嫡出否認の訴えの当事者等） — (Parties to an Action to Rebut the Presumption of Legitimacy) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-41 **第一項** 父が子の出生前に死亡したとき又は民法第七百七十七条（第一号に係る部分に限る。）若しくは第七百七十八条（第一号に係る部分に限る。）に定める期間内に嫡出否認の訴えを提起しないで死亡したときは、その子のために相続権を害される者その他父の三親等内の血族は、父の死亡の日から一年以内に限り、嫡出否認の訴えを提起することができる。 art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-41/par-1 If a father dies before the birth of a child, or dies within the period specified by Article 777 (limited to the part related to item (i)) or Article 778 (limited to the part related to item (i)) of the Civil Code without filing an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy, a person whose right of inheritance is harmed because of the child, or any other blood relative of the father's within the third degree of kinship, may file an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy only within one year from the day on which the father died. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 父が嫡出否認の訴えを提起した後に死亡した場合には、前項の規定により嫡出否認の訴えを提起することができる者は、父の死亡の日から六月以内に訴訟手続を受け継ぐことができる。この場合においては、民事訴訟法第百二十四条第一項後段の規定は、適用しない。 art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-41/par-2 If a father dies after filing an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy, a person permitted to file an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be substituted in the court proceedings within six months from the day of the father's death. In that case, the provisions of the second sentence of Article 124, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure do not apply. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 民法第七百七十四条第四項に規定する前夫は、同法第七百七十五条第一項（第四号に係る部分に限る。）の規定により嫡出否認の訴えを提起する場合において、子の懐胎の時から出生の時までの間に、当該前夫との婚姻の解消又は取消しの後に母と婚姻していた者（父を除く。）がいるときは、その嫡出否認の訴えに併合してそれらの者を被告とする嫡出否認の訴えを提起しなければならない。 art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-41/par-3 If a former husband specified in Article 774, paragraph (4) of the Civil Code files an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy pursuant to the provisions of Article 775, paragraph (1) of that Code (limited to the portion related to item (iv)), if there is a person (other than the father) who marries the mother during the period from the time of conception to the time of the birth of the child after dissolution or rescission of the mother's marriage to the former husband, an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy naming those persons as defendants must be filed by joining with the action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a former husband specified in Article 774, paragraph (4) of the Civil Code files an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy pursuant to the provisions of Article 775, paragraph (1) (limited to the portion related to item (iv) of that Code, if there is a person (other than the husband)) who marries the mother during the period from the time of conception to the time of the birth of the child after dissolution or rescission of the mother's marriage to the former husband, an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy naming those persons as defendants must be filed by joining with the action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb **第四項** 前項の規定により併合して提起された嫡出否認の訴えの弁論及び裁判は、それぞれ分離しないでしなければならない。 art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-41/par-4 The oral arguments and judicial decisions in an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy filed by joining pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must not be separated from one another. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-41/par-1: 民法第七百七十七条 → 民法 第七百七十七条 (Article 777), art-777 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-777 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-777 - art-41/par-1: 第一号 → 民法 第七百七十七条第一項第一号 (Article 777, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-777/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-777/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-777/par-1/item-1 - art-41/par-1: 第七百七十八条 → 民法 第七百七十八条 (Article 778), art-778 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-778 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-778 - art-41/par-1: 第一号 → 民法 第七百七十八条第一項第一号 (Article 778, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-778/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-778/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-778/par-1/item-1 - art-41/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-41/par-1 - art-41/par-2: 民事訴訟法第百二十四条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百二十四条第一項 (Article 124, paragraph (1)), art-124/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-124/par-1 - art-41/par-3: 民法第七百七十四条第四項 → 民法 第七百七十四条第四項 (Article 774, paragraph (4)), art-774/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-774/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-774/par-4 - art-41/par-3: 同法第七百七十五条第一項 → 民法 第七百七十五条第一項 (Article 775, paragraph (1)), art-775/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-775/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-775/par-1 - art-41/par-3: 第四号 → 民法 第七百七十五条第一項第四号 (Article 775, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-775/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-775/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-775/par-1/item-4 - art-41/par-4: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第四十一条第三項 (Article 41, paragraph (3)), art-41/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-41/par-3 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第四十一条第二項（嫡出否認の訴えの当事者等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-41/par-2 - 人事訴訟法 第四十一条第四項（嫡出否認の訴えの当事者等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-41/par-4 - 人事訴訟法 第四十三条第一項（認知の無効の訴えの当事者等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-43/par-1 - 人事訴訟法 附則第九条第一項（嫡出否認の訴えに係る訴訟における訴訟手続の受継に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-9/par-1 - 民法 附則第四条第一項（嫡出の否認及び嫡出の承認に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5041-102/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5041-102/art-4/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Personal Status Litigation Act, written 2026-11-03 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act (人事訴訟法), Article 41, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02