# 民法 / Civil Code — 第十八条 (Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（補助開始の審判等の取消し） — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（補助開始の審判等の取消し） — (Setting Aside of Decisions for Commencement of Assistance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-18 **第一項** 第十五条第一項本文に規定する原因が消滅したときは、家庭裁判所は、本人、配偶者、四親等内の親族、未成年後見人、未成年後見監督人、補助人、補助監督人又は検察官の請求により、補助開始の審判を取り消さなければならない。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-18/par-1 If the grounds prescribed in the main clause of Article 15, paragraph (1) cease to exist, the family court must set aside the decision for commencement of assistance at the request of the person in question, that person's spouse, that person's relative within the fourth degree of kinship, the guardian of a minor, the supervisor of a minor's guardian, the assistant, the assistant's supervisor, or a public prosecutor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、前項に規定する者の請求により、前条第一項の審判の全部又は一部を取り消すことができる。 art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-18/par-2 At the request of a person as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the family court may set aside all or part of the decision referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前条第一項の審判及び第八百七十六条の九第一項の審判をすべて取り消す場合には、家庭裁判所は、補助開始の審判を取り消さなければならない。 art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-18/par-3 If setting aside the decision referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and the decision referred to in Article 876-9, paragraph (1) in their entirety, the family court must set aside the decision for commencement of assistance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-18/par-1: 第十五条第一項 → 民法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-15/par-1 - art-18/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-18/par-1 - art-18/par-2: 前条第一項 → 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-18/par-3: 前条第一項 → 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-18/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 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第十八条第二項（補助開始の審判等の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-18/par-2 --- ## 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