# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百三十二条 (Article 232) - Law: 破産法 (Bankruptcy Act), 平成十六年法律第七十五号 - English title "Bankruptcy 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: 第二百三十二条 (Article 232)（相続人の地位） — address `art-232` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-232 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-232 - 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. --- ### 第二百三十二条（相続人の地位） — (Status of Heirs) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-232 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-232 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-232 **第一項** 相続財産について破産手続開始の決定があった場合には、相続人が被相続人に対して有していた権利は、消滅しなかったものとみなす。この場合においては、相続人は、被相続人に対して有していた債権について、相続債権者と同一の権利を有する。 art-232/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-232/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-232/par-1 If an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued against an estate, rights that an heir held vis-à-vis the decedent are deemed not to have been extinguished. In this case, an heir has the same rights as an creditor of the succession with regard to a claim that they held vis-à-vis the decedent. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する場合において、相続人が相続債権者に対して自己の固有財産をもって弁済その他の債務を消滅させる行為をしたときは、相続人は、その出えんの額の範囲内において、当該相続債権者が被相続人に対して有していた権利を行使することができる。 art-232/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-232/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-232/par-2 In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, when an heir has made payment to an creditor of the succession or conducted any other act that causes the debts to be extinguished with their own property, the heir may exercise rights that the creditor of the succession held vis-à-vis the decedent to the extent of the amount paid by the heir. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-232/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第二百三十二条第一項 (Article 232, paragraph (1)), art-232/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-232/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-232/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二百三十二条第二項（相続人の地位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-232/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-232/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 破産法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000075/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Bankruptcy Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19