# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百三十六条 (Article 736) - 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: 第七百三十六条 (Article 736)（養親子等の間の婚姻の禁止） — address `art-736` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-736 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-736 - 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. --- ### 第七百三十六条（養親子等の間の婚姻の禁止） — (Prohibition of Marriage between Adoptive Parent and Child) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-736 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-736 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-736 **第一項** 養子若しくはその配偶者又は養子の直系卑属若しくはその配偶者と養親又はその直系尊属との間では、第七百二十九条の規定により親族関係が終了した後でも、婚姻をすることができない。 art-736/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-736/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-736/par-1 Even after the termination of kinship pursuant to the provisions of Article 729, marriage is not permissible between the adopted child, the spouse thereof, the lineal descendant of the adopted child, or the spouse thereof, and the adoptive parent or lineal ascendant thereof. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-736/par-1: 第七百二十九条 → 民法 第七百二十九条 (Article 729), art-729 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-729 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-729 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第七百四十条第一項（婚姻の届出の受理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-740/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-740/par-1 - 民法 第七百四十四条第一項（不適法な婚姻の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-744/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-744/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 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4275/tb), 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