# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百条 (Article 900) - 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: 第九百条 (Article 900)（法定相続分） — address `art-900` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-900 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-900 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九百条（法定相続分） — (Intestate Shares) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-900 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-900 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-900 **第一項** 同順位の相続人が数人あるときは、その相続分は、次の各号の定めるところによる。 art-900/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-900/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-900/par-1 If there are two or more heirs of the same place in the line of succession, their shares of the estate are as prescribed in the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 子及び配偶者が相続人であるときは、子の相続分及び配偶者の相続分は、各二分の一とする。 art-900/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-900/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-900/par-1/item-1 if a child or children and a spouse are the heirs, the child's or children's share of the estate is one-half and the spouse's share of the estate is one-half; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 配偶者及び直系尊属が相続人であるときは、配偶者の相続分は、三分の二とし、直系尊属の相続分は、三分の一とする。 art-900/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-900/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-900/par-1/item-2 if a spouse and a lineal ascendant or ascendants are the heirs, the spouse's share of the estate is two-thirds and the lineal ascendant's or ascendants' share of the estate is one-third; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 配偶者及び兄弟姉妹が相続人であるときは、配偶者の相続分は、四分の三とし、兄弟姉妹の相続分は、四分の一とする。 art-900/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-900/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-900/par-1/item-3 if a spouse and a sibling or siblings are the heirs, the spouse's share of the estate is three-quarters, and the sibling's or siblings' share of the estate is one-quarter; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 子、直系尊属又は兄弟姉妹が数人あるときは、各自の相続分は、相等しいものとする。ただし、父母の一方のみを同じくする兄弟姉妹の相続分は、父母の双方を同じくする兄弟姉妹の相続分の二分の一とする。 art-900/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-900/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-900/par-1/item-4 if there are two or more children, lineal ascendants, or siblings, each share in the estate is to be equal; provided, however, that the share of a sibling who has only one parent in common with the decedent is one half of the share of a sibling who has both parents in common with the decedent. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 17 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不動産登記法 第七十六条の二第二項（相続等による所有権の移転の登記の申請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/real-property-registration-act/art-76-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000123/art-76-2/par-2 - 国税通則法 第五条第二項（相続による国税の納付義務の承継） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-5/par-2 - 民法 第八百九十八条第二項（共同相続の効力） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-898/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-898/par-2 - 民法 第八百九十九条の二第一項（共同相続における権利の承継の対抗要件） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-899-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-899-2/par-1 - 民法 第八百九十九条の二第二項（共同相続における権利の承継の対抗要件） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-899-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-899-2/par-2 - 民法 第九百一条第一項（代襲相続人の相続分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-901/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-901/par-1 - 民法 第九百二条第一項（遺言による相続分の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-902/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902/par-1 - 民法 第九百二条第二項（遺言による相続分の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-902/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902/par-2 - 民法 第九百二条の二第一項（相続分の指定がある場合の債権者の権利の行使） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-902-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902-2/par-1 - 民法 第九百三条第一項（特別受益者の相続分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-903/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-903/par-1 - 民法 第九百四条の二第一項（寄与分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-904-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-904-2/par-1 - 民法 第九百九条の二第一項（遺産の分割前における預貯金債権の行使） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-909-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-909-2/par-1 - 民法 第千四十二条第二項（遺留分の帰属及びその割合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1042/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1042/par-2 - 民法 第千四十六条第二項第二号（遺留分侵害額の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1046/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046/par-2/item-2 - 民法 第千五十条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1050/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1050/par-5 - 相続税法 第十六条第一項（相続税の総額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/inheritance-tax-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000073/art-16/par-1 - 相続税法 第十九条の二第一項第二号イ（配偶者に対する相続税額の軽減） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/inheritance-tax-act/art-19-2/par-1/item-2/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000073/art-19-2/par-1/item-2/sub-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