# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百三十九条 (Article 839) - 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: 第八百三十九条 (Article 839)（未成年後見人の指定） — address `art-839` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-839 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-839 - 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. --- ### 第八百三十九条（未成年後見人の指定） — (Designation of a Guardian for a Minor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-839 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-839 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-839 **第一項** 未成年者に対して最後に親権を行う者は、遺言で、未成年後見人を指定することができる。ただし、管理権を有しない者は、この限りでない。 art-839/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-839/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-839/par-1 The person last exercising parental authority over a minor may designate a guardian for the minor by a will; provided, however, that this does not apply to a person who has no right to manage the minor's property. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 親権を行う父母の一方が管理権を有しないときは、他の一方は、前項の規定により未成年後見人の指定をすることができる。 art-839/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-839/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-839/par-2 If one of the parents exercising parental authority does not have the right to manage the child's property, the other parent may designate a guardian for the minor pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-839/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第八百三十九条第一項 (Article 839, paragraph (1)), art-839/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-839/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-839/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 戸籍法 第八十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/family-register-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000224/art-81/par-1 - 民法 第八百三十九条第二項（未成年後見人の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-839/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-839/par-2 - 民法 第八百四十条第一項（未成年後見人の選任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-840/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-840/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