# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第六十一条 (Article 61) - 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: 第六十一条 (Article 61)（夫婦財産関係における管理者の変更等） — address `art-61` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-61 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-61 - 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. --- ### 第六十一条（夫婦財産関係における管理者の変更等） — (Change of Administrators of Matrimonial Property) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-61 **第一項** 民法第七百五十八条第二項及び第三項並びに第七百五十九条の規定は配偶者の財産を管理する者につき破産手続が開始された場合について、同法第八百三十五条の規定は親権を行う者につき破産手続が開始された場合について準用する。 art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-61/par-1 The provisions of Article 758, paragraphs (2) and (3), and Article 759 of the Civil Code apply mutatis mutandis when bankruptcy proceedings are commenced against a husband or wife who administers the property of their spouse, and the provisions of Article 835 of that Code apply mutatis mutandis when bankruptcy proceedings are commenced against a person that exercises parental authority. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-61/par-1: 民法第七百五十八条第二項 → 民法 第七百五十八条第二項 (Article 758, paragraph (2)), art-758/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-758/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-758/par-2 - art-61/par-1: 第三項 → 民法 第七百五十八条第三項 (Article 758, paragraph (3)), art-758/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-758/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-758/par-3 - art-61/par-1: 第七百五十九条 → 民法 第七百五十九条 (Article 759), art-759 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-759 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-759 - art-61/par-1: 同法第八百三十五条 → 民法 第八百三十五条 (Article 835), art-835 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-835 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-835 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第三条第二項（親権及び管理権の喪失の宣告に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4231-61/art-3/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