# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百六十九条 (Article 769) - 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: 第七百六十九条 (Article 769)（離婚による復氏の際の権利の承継） — address `art-769` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-769 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-769 - 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. --- ### 第七百六十九条（離婚による復氏の際の権利の承継） — (Succession of Rights after Reversion to Previous Surname upon Divorce) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-769 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-769 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-769 **第一項** 婚姻によって氏を改めた夫又は妻が、第八百九十七条第一項の権利を承継した後、協議上の離婚をしたときは、当事者その他の関係人の協議で、その権利を承継すべき者を定めなければならない。 art-769/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-769/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-769/par-1 If the husband or wife who changed surnames upon marriage becomes party to a divorce by agreement after succeeding to rights as referred to in Article 897, paragraph (1), the matter of who succeeds to those rights must be determined through the agreement of the parties and any other interested persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **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、同項の権利を承継すべき者は、家庭裁判所がこれを定める。 art-769/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-769/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-769/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 family court determines who succeeds to the rights referred to in that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-769/par-1: 第八百九十七条第一項 → 民法 第八百九十七条第一項 (Article 897, paragraph (1)), art-897/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-897/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-897/par-1 - art-769/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第七百六十九条第一項 (Article 769, paragraph (1)), art-769/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-769/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-769/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第七百五十一条第二項（生存配偶者の復氏等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-751/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-751/par-2 - 民法 第七百六十九条第二項（離婚による復氏の際の権利の承継） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-769/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-769/par-2 - 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 第八百八条第二項（婚姻の取消し等の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-808/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-808/par-2 - 民法 第八百十七条第一項（離縁による復氏の際の権利の承継） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-817/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817/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