# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百八十七条 (Article 787) - 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: 第七百八十七条 (Article 787)（認知の訴え） — address `art-787` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-787 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-787 - 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. --- ### 第七百八十七条（認知の訴え） — (Filiation Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-787 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-787 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-787 **第一項** 子、その直系卑属又はこれらの者の法定代理人は、認知の訴えを提起することができる。ただし、父又は母の死亡の日から三年を経過したときは、この限りでない。 art-787/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-787/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-787/par-1 A child, the lineal descendant thereof, or the legal representative of either, may bring filiation proceedings; provided, however that this does not apply if three years have passed since the day on which the father or mother died. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 所得税法 第百五十一条の六第一項第二号（遺産分割等があつた場合の修正申告の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/income-tax-act/art-151-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000033/art-151-6/par-1/item-2 - 相続税法 第三十二条第一項第二号（更正の請求の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/inheritance-tax-act/art-32/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000073/art-32/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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