# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百三十四条 (Article 834) - 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: 第八百三十四条 (Article 834)（親権喪失の審判） — address `art-834` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-834 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-834 - 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. --- ### 第八百三十四条（親権喪失の審判） — (Ruling Affirming the Loss of Parental Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-834 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-834 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-834 **第一項** 父又は母による虐待又は悪意の遺棄があるときその他父又は母による親権の行使が著しく困難又は不適当であることにより子の利益を著しく害するときは、家庭裁判所は、子、その親族、未成年後見人、未成年後見監督人又は検察官の請求により、その父又は母について、親権喪失の審判をすることができる。ただし、二年以内にその原因が消滅する見込みがあるときは、この限りでない。 art-834/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-834/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-834/par-1 If the father or mother abuses or willfully abandons the child, or if significant difficulty or impropriety in the father's or mother's exercise of parental authority otherwise greatly harms the interests of the child, the family court may issue a ruling affirming the father's or mother's loss of parental authority, at the request of the child, a relative thereof, the guardian, the guardian supervisor, or the public prosecutor; provided, however, that this does not apply if cause for such a ruling is expected to cease to exist within two years. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百三十六条第一項（親権喪失、親権停止又は管理権喪失の審判の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-836/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-836/par-1 - 民法 附則第三条第一項（親権及び管理権の喪失の宣告に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-1 - 民法 附則第三条第三項（親権及び管理権の喪失の宣告に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4231-61/art-3/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