# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百七十八条の三 (Article 778-3) - 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: 第七百七十八条の三 (Article 778-3)（子の監護に要した費用の償還の制限） — address `art-778-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-778-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-778-3 - 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. --- ### 第七百七十八条の三（子の監護に要した費用の償還の制限） — Restriction on Reimbursement of Costs Required for Child Custody caption: machine translation, not official art-778-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-778-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-778-3 **第一項** 第七百七十四条の規定により嫡出であることが否認された場合であっても、子は、父であった者が支出した子の監護に要した費用を償還する義務を負わない。 art-778-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-778-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-778-3/par-1 Even if the presumption of the child in wedlock is rebutted pursuant to the provisions of Article 774, the child is not obligated to reimburse the costs required for the custody of the child that were expended by the person who was the father. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-778-3/par-1: 第七百七十四条 → 民法 第七百七十四条 (Article 774), art-774 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-774 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-774 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第四条第三項（嫡出の否認及び嫡出の承認に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5041-102/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5041-102/art-4/par-3 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-003, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11