# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百三十四条の二 (Article 834-2) - 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: 第八百三十四条の二 (Article 834-2)（親権停止の審判） — address `art-834-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-834-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-834-2 - 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. --- ### 第八百三十四条の二（親権停止の審判） — (Ruling Suspending Parental Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-834-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-834-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-834-2 **第一項** 父又は母による親権の行使が困難又は不適当であることにより子の利益を害するときは、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、親権停止の審判をすることができる。 art-834-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-834-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-834-2/par-1 If difficulty or impropriety in the father's or mother's exercise of parental authority harms the interests of the child, the family court may rule to suspend the parental authority of the father or mother, at the request of the child, a relative thereof, the guardian, the guardian supervisor, or the public prosecutor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、親権停止の審判をするときは、その原因が消滅するまでに要すると見込まれる期間、子の心身の状態及び生活の状況その他一切の事情を考慮して、二年を超えない範囲内で、親権を停止する期間を定める。 art-834-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-834-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-834-2/par-2 If the family court rules to suspend parental authority, it must fix the term of no greater than two years during which parental authority is suspended in consideration of the time expected to be required for cause for such a ruling to cease to exist, the physical and mental condition of the child, circumstances in the child's daily life, and all other circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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 --- ## 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