# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百七十八条の四 (Article 778-4) - 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: 第七百七十八条の四 (Article 778-4)（相続の開始後に新たに子と推定された者の価額の支払請求権） — address `art-778-4` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-778-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-778-4 - 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. --- ### 第七百七十八条の四（相続の開始後に新たに子と推定された者の価額の支払請求権） — Right of a Person Newly Presumed to Be a Child after the Opening of the Succession to Payment of the Value caption: machine translation, not official art-778-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-778-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-778-4 **第一項** 相続の開始後、第七百七十四条の規定により否認権が行使され、第七百七十二条第四項の規定により読み替えられた同条第三項の規定により新たに被相続人がその父と定められた者が相続人として遺産の分割を請求しようとする場合において、他の共同相続人が既にその分割その他の処分をしていたときは、当該相続人の遺産分割の請求は、価額のみによる支払の請求により行うものとする。 art-778-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-778-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-778-4/par-1 In a case where, after the opening of the succession, a right to rebut the presumption has been exercised pursuant to the provisions of Article 774, and a person for whom the decedent has been newly determined to be the father pursuant to the provisions of Article 772, paragraph (3) as replaced pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article seeks, as an heir, to request division of the estate, if the other coheirs have already divided or otherwise disposed of the estate, the request of that heir for division of the estate is to be made only by a request for payment of the value. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-778-4/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 - art-778-4/par-1: 第七百七十二条第四項 → 民法 第七百七十二条第四項 (Article 772, paragraph (4)), art-772/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-772/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-4 - art-778-4/par-1: 同条第三項 → 民法 第七百七十二条第三項 (Article 772, paragraph (3)), art-772/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-772/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-3 ## 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