# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百八十九条 (Article 789) - 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: 第七百八十九条 (Article 789)（準正） — address `art-789` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-789 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-789 - 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. --- ### 第七百八十九条（準正） — (Legitimation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-789 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-789 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-789 **第一項** 父が認知した子は、その父母の婚姻によって嫡出子の身分を取得する。 art-789/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-789/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-789/par-1 A child whose paternity the father acknowledges acquires status as a child in wedlock upon the marriage of the child's father and mother. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 婚姻中父母が認知した子は、その認知の時から、嫡出子の身分を取得する。 art-789/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-789/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-789/par-2 A child whose parentage the parents acknowledge while married to each other acquires status of a child in wedlock from the time of that acknowledgment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定は、子が既に死亡していた場合について準用する。 art-789/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-789/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-789/par-3 The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis if the child has already died. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-789/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第七百八十九条第一項 (Article 789, paragraph (1)), art-789/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-789/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-789/par-1 - art-789/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第七百八十九条第二項 (Article 789, paragraph (2)), art-789/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-789/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-789/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 戸籍法 第六十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/family-register-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000224/art-62/par-1 - 民法 第七百八十九条第三項（準正） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-789/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-789/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 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