# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百六十三条 (Article 863) - 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: 第八百六十三条 (Article 863)（後見の事務の監督） — address `art-863` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-863 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-863 - 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. --- ### 第八百六十三条（後見の事務の監督） — (Supervision of Guardianship Administration) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-863 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-863 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-863 **第一項** 後見監督人又は家庭裁判所は、いつでも、後見人に対し後見の事務の報告若しくは財産の目録の提出を求め、又は後見の事務若しくは被後見人の財産の状況を調査することができる。 art-863/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-863/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-863/par-1 At any time, the guardian supervisor or the family court may demand that the guardian submit a report on the guardianship administration or an inventory of property, and may investigate the guardianship administration or the financial status of the ward. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、後見監督人、被後見人若しくはその親族その他の利害関係人の請求により又は職権で、被後見人の財産の管理その他後見の事務について必要な処分を命ずることができる。 art-863/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-863/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-863/par-2 The family court may order any necessary disposition with respect to the management of the ward's property or other guardianship administration, at the request of the guardian supervisor, the ward, the relative thereof, or any other interested person, or sua sponte. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百六十七条第二項（未成年被後見人に代わる親権の行使） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-867/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-867/par-2 - 民法 第八百七十六条の五第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-5/par-2 - 民法 第八百七十六条の十第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-10/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