# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百九十四条 (Article 794) - 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: 第七百九十四条 (Article 794)（後見人が被後見人を養子とする縁組） — address `art-794` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-794 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-794 - 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. --- ### 第七百九十四条（後見人が被後見人を養子とする縁組） — (Adoption of a Ward by the Guardian) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-794 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-794 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-794 **第一項** 後見人が被後見人（未成年被後見人及び成年被後見人をいう。以下同じ。）を養子とするには、家庭裁判所の許可を得なければならない。後見人の任務が終了した後、まだその管理の計算が終わらない間も、同様とする。 art-794/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-794/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-794/par-1 A guardian must obtain the permission of the family court in order to adopt a ward (meaning a minor ward or an adult ward; the same applies hereinafter). The same applies if the person's role as guardian has ended but the person has not finished accounting for the management of the ward's property. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百条第一項（縁組の届出の受理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-800/par-1 - 民法 第八百六条第一項（後見人と被後見人との間の無許可縁組の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-806/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-806/par-1 - 民法 第八百十七条の二第二項（特別養子縁組の成立） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-817-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-2/par-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