# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百三十二条 (Article 832) - 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: 第八百三十二条 (Article 832)（財産の管理について生じた親子間の債権の消滅時効） — address `art-832` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-832 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-832 - 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. --- ### 第八百三十二条（財産の管理について生じた親子間の債権の消滅時効） — (Extinctive Prescription of Claims between Parent and Child Arising in Respect of Management of the Child's Property) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-832 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-832 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-832 **第一項** 親権を行った者とその子との間に財産の管理について生じた債権は、その管理権が消滅した時から五年間これを行使しないときは、時効によって消滅する。 art-832/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-832/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-832/par-1 A claim arising in respect of the management of the child's property between a person who exercised parental authority and the child is extinguished by prescription if not exercised within five years from the time the right to manage the child's property lapses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 子がまだ成年に達しない間に管理権が消滅した場合において子に法定代理人がないときは、前項の期間は、その子が成年に達し、又は後任の法定代理人が就職した時から起算する。 art-832/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-832/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-832/par-2 If the right to manage a child's property lapses before the child attains the age of majority and the child has no legal representative, the period referred to in the preceding paragraph is calculated beginning from the time the child attains the age of majority or a new statutory agent is appointed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-832/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第八百三十二条第一項 (Article 832, paragraph (1)), art-832/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-832/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-832/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百三十二条第二項（財産の管理について生じた親子間の債権の消滅時効） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-832/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-832/par-2 - 民法 第八百七十五条第一項（後見に関して生じた債権の消滅時効） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-875/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-875/par-1 - 民法 第八百七十六条の五第三項（保佐の事務及び保佐人の任務の終了等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-5/par-3 - 民法 第八百七十六条の十第二項（補助の事務及び補助人の任務の終了等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-10/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