# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百十四条 (Article 814) - 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: 第八百十四条 (Article 814)（裁判上の離縁） — address `art-814` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-814 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-814 - 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. --- ### 第八百十四条（裁判上の離縁） — (Judicial Dissolution of an Adoptive Relationship) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-814 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-814 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-814 **第一項** 縁組の当事者の一方は、次に掲げる場合に限り、離縁の訴えを提起することができる。 art-814/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-814/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-814/par-1 A party to an adoption may independently initiate proceedings to dissolve the adoptive relationship only in one of the following cases: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 他の一方から悪意で遺棄されたとき。 art-814/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-814/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-814/par-1/item-1 if the party has been willfully abandoned by the other party; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 他の一方の生死が三年以上明らかでないとき。 art-814/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-814/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-814/par-1/item-2 if it has been unclear whether the other party is dead or alive for three years or more; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** その他縁組を継続し難い重大な事由があるとき。 art-814/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-814/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-814/par-1/item-3 if there are any other material grounds that make it difficult for the adoptive relationship to continue. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第七百七十条第二項の規定は、前項第一号及び第二号に掲げる場合について準用する。 art-814/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-814/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-814/par-2 The provisions of Article 770, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a case as set forth in item (i) or item (ii) of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-814/par-2: 第七百七十条第二項 → 民法 第七百七十条第二項 (Article 770, paragraph (2)), art-770/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-770/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-770/par-2 - art-814/par-2: 前項第一号 → 民法 第八百十四条第一項第一号 (Article 814, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-814/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-814/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-814/par-1/item-1 - art-814/par-2: 第二号 → 民法 第八百十四条第一項第二号 (Article 814, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-814/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-814/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-814/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百十四条第二項（裁判上の離縁） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-814/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-814/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