# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百九十七条の二 (Article 897-2) - 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: 第八百九十七条の二 (Article 897-2)（相続財産の保存） — address `art-897-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-897-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-897-2 - 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. --- ### 第八百九十七条の二（相続財産の保存） — Preservation of an Estate caption: machine translation, not official art-897-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-897-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-897-2 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、利害関係人又は検察官の請求によって、いつでも、相続財産の管理人の選任その他の相続財産の保存に必要な処分を命ずることができる。ただし、相続人が一人である場合においてその相続人が相続の単純承認をしたとき、相続人が数人ある場合において遺産の全部の分割がされたとき、又は第九百五十二条第一項の規定により相続財産の清算人が選任されているときは、この限りでない。 art-897-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-897-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-897-2/par-1 At the request of an interested party or the public prosecutor, the family court may, at any time, order the appointment of an administrator of the estate or other dispositions necessary for the preservation of the estate; provided, however, that this does not apply if, where there is only one heir, that heir has unconditionally accepted the succession, if, where there are several heirs, the whole of the estate has been divided, or if a liquidator of the estate has been appointed pursuant to Article 952, paragraph (1). machine translation, not official **第二項** 第二十七条から第二十九条までの規定は、前項の規定により家庭裁判所が相続財産の管理人を選任した場合について準用する。 art-897-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-897-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-897-2/par-2 The provisions of Article 27 through Article 29 apply mutatis mutandis if the family court appoints an administrator to the estate pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-897-2/par-1: 第九百五十二条第一項 → 民法 第九百五十二条第一項 (Article 952, paragraph (1)), art-952/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-952/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952/par-1 - art-897-2/par-2: 第二十七条から第二十九条まで → 民法 第二十七条 (Article 27), art-27 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-27 - art-897-2/par-2: 第二十七条から第二十九条まで → 民法 第二十八条 (Article 28), art-28 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-28 - art-897-2/par-2: 第二十七条から第二十九条まで → 民法 第二十九条 (Article 29), art-29 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-29 - art-897-2/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第八百九十七条の二第一項 (Article 897-2, paragraph (1)), art-897-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-897-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-897-2/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百九十七条の二第二項（相続財産の保存） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-897-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-897-2/par-2 - 民法 附則第二条第一項（相続財産の保存に必要な処分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-1 - 民法 附則第二条第二項（相続財産の保存に必要な処分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-2/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 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-005, translated 2026-10-12 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-006, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11