# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百七十条 (Article 870) - 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: 第八百七十条 (Article 870)（後見の計算） — address `art-870` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-870 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-870 - 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. --- ### 第八百七十条（後見の計算） — (Accounting for the Guardianship) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-870 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-870 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-870 **第一項** 後見人の任務が終了したときは、後見人又はその相続人は、二箇月以内にその管理の計算（以下「後見の計算」という。）をしなければならない。ただし、この期間は、家庭裁判所において伸長することができる。 art-870/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-870/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-870/par-1 When the duties of a guardian come to an end, the guardian or the heir thereof must account for the guardian's management of the ward's property (hereinafter referred to as "accounting for the guardianship") within two months; provided, however, that this period may be extended with the approval of the family court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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