# 民法 / Civil Code — 第十五条 (Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（補助開始の審判） — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条（補助開始の審判） — (Decisions for Commencement of Assistance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-15 **第一項** 精神上の障害により事理を弁識する能力が不十分である者については、家庭裁判所は、本人、配偶者、四親等内の親族、後見人、後見監督人、保佐人、保佐監督人又は検察官の請求により、補助開始の審判をすることができる。ただし、第七条又は第十一条本文に規定する原因がある者については、この限りでない。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-15/par-1 The family court may decide to commence an assistance in respect of a person whose capacity to appreciate their own situation is inadequate due to a mental disorder or disability, at the request of the person in question, that person's spouse, that person's relative within the fourth degree of kinship, the guardian, the guardian's supervisor, the curator, the curator's supervisor, or a public prosecutor; provided, however, that this does not apply to a person with respect to whom there are grounds as prescribed in Article 7 or the main clause of Article 11. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 本人以外の者の請求により補助開始の審判をするには、本人の同意がなければならない。 art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-15/par-2 The issuance of a decision for commencement of assistance at the request of a person other than the person in question requires the consent of the person in question. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 補助開始の審判は、第十七条第一項の審判又は第八百七十六条の九第一項の審判とともにしなければならない。 art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-15/par-3 A decision for commencement of assistance must be made concurrent with a decision referred to in Article 17, paragraph (1) or a decision referred to in Article 876-9, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-15/par-1: 第七条 → 民法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-7 - art-15/par-1: 第十一条 → 民法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-11 - art-15/par-3: 第十七条第一項 → 民法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-17/par-1 - art-15/par-3: 第八百七十六条の九第一項 → 民法 第八百七十六条の九第一項 (Article 876-9, paragraph (1)), art-876-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-9/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第十七条第一項（補助人の同意を要する旨の審判等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-17/par-1 - 民法 第十八条第一項（補助開始の審判等の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-18/par-1 - 民法 第八百七十六条の九第一項（補助人に代理権を付与する旨の審判） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-9/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 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11