# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百六十六条 (Article 766) - 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: 第七百六十六条 (Article 766)（離婚後の子の監護に関する事項の定め等） — address `art-766` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七百六十六条（離婚後の子の監護に関する事項の定め等） — (Determining Issues of Child Custody Following Divorce) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-766 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766 **第一項** 父母が協議上の離婚をするときは、子の監護をすべき者又は子の監護の分掌、父又は母と子との交流、子の監護に要する費用の分担その他の子の監護について必要な事項は、その協議で定める。この場合においては、子の利益を最も優先して考慮しなければならない。 art-766/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-1 If parents divorce by agreement, the issues that need to be determined in connection with child custody, such as who will have custody over the child or the allocation of custody of the child, contact between the father or mother and the child, and the sharing of expenses that custody of the child requires, are determined in that agreement. The child's interests must be given the highest priority in the consideration of these issues, in such a case. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の協議が調わないとき、又は協議をすることができないときは、家庭裁判所が、同項の事項を定める。 art-766/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-2 If the agreement referred to in the preceding paragraph is not reached or if discussions toward such an agreement cannot be held, the issues referred to in the preceding paragraph are determined by the family court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 家庭裁判所は、必要があると認めるときは、前二項の規定による定めを変更し、その他子の監護について相当な処分を命ずることができる。 art-766/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-3 The family court may change a determination under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs and order any other proper disposition regarding child custody if it finds this to be necessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前三項の規定によっては、監護の範囲外では、父母の権利義務に変更を生じない。 art-766/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-4 Parental rights and duties beyond the scope of custody are not altered by the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-766/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第七百六十六条第一項 (Article 766, paragraph (1)), art-766/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-1 - art-766/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第七百六十六条第一項 (Article 766, paragraph (1)), art-766/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-1 - art-766/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第七百六十六条第二項 (Article 766, paragraph (2)), art-766/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-2 - art-766/par-4: 前三項 → 民法 第七百六十六条第一項 (Article 766, paragraph (1)), art-766/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-1 - art-766/par-4: 前三項 → 民法 第七百六十六条第二項 (Article 766, paragraph (2)), art-766/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-2 - art-766/par-4: 前三項 → 民法 第七百六十六条第三項 (Article 766, paragraph (3)), art-766/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-3 ## Cited by 13 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三百八条の二第一項第三号（子の監護費用の先取特権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-308-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-308-2/par-1/item-3 - 民法 第七百四十九条第一項（離婚の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-749/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-749/par-1 - 民法 第七百六十六条第二項（離婚後の子の監護に関する事項の定め等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-2 - 民法 第七百六十六条第三項（離婚後の子の監護に関する事項の定め等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-3 - 民法 第七百六十六条第四項（離婚後の子の監護に関する事項の定め等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-4 - 民法 第七百六十六条の二第一項（審判による父母以外の親族と子との交流の定め） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766-2/par-1 - 民法 第七百六十六条の二第二項（審判による父母以外の親族と子との交流の定め） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766-2/par-2 - 民法 第七百六十六条の三第三項（子の監護に要する費用の分担の定めがない場合の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766-3/par-3 - 民法 第七百七十一条第一項（協議上の離婚の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-771/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-771/par-1 - 民法 第七百八十八条第一項（認知後の子の監護に関する事項の定め等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-788/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-788/par-1 - 民法 第八百十七条の十三第一項（親子の交流等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-817-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-13/par-1 - 民法 第八百二十四条の三第一項（監護者の権利義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-824-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-824-3/par-1 - 民法 附則第十七条第一項（啓発活動） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-17/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-001, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11