# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百八十八条 (Article 788) - 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: 第七百八十八条 (Article 788)（認知後の子の監護に関する事項の定め等） — address `art-788` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-788 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-788 - 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. --- ### 第七百八十八条（認知後の子の監護に関する事項の定め等） — (Determining Issues of Child Custody after Acknowledgment of Paternity) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-788 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-788 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-788 **第一項** 第七百六十六条から第七百六十六条の三までの規定は、父が認知する場合について準用する。 art-788/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-788/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-788/par-1 The provisions of Articles 766 through 766-3 apply mutatis mutandis when a father acknowledges paternity. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-788/par-1: 第七百六十六条から第七百六十六条の三まで → 民法 第七百六十六条 (Article 766), art-766 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766 - art-788/par-1: 第七百六十六条から第七百六十六条の三まで → 民法 第七百六十六条の二 (Article 766-2), art-766-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766-2 - art-788/par-1: 第七百六十六条から第七百六十六条の三まで → 民法 第七百六十六条の三 (Article 766-3), art-766-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766-3 ## Cited by 5 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 附則第三条第二項（子の監護費用に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-3/par-2 - 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-20261011T170941-003, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11