# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百二条の二 (Article 902-2)

- 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: 第九百二条の二 (Article 902-2)（相続分の指定がある場合の債権者の権利の行使） — address `art-902-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
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### 第九百二条の二（相続分の指定がある場合の債権者の権利の行使） — Exercise of Right by Obligees Where There Is a Designation of a Share of the Estate
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-902-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-902-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902-2</sup>

    **第一項**  被相続人が相続開始の時において有した債務の債権者は、前条の規定による相続分の指定がされた場合であっても、各共同相続人に対し、第九百条及び第九百一条の規定により算定した相続分に応じてその権利を行使することができる。ただし、その債権者が共同相続人の一人に対してその指定された相続分に応じた債務の承継を承認したときは、この限りでない。
    <sup>art-902-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-902-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902-2/par-1</sup>
    A creditor of a debt that the decedent had at the time the succession opened may, even where a designation of shares of the estate has been made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, exercise the creditor's right against each coheir in accordance with the share of the estate calculated pursuant to the provisions of Articles 900 and 901; provided, however, that this does not apply if the creditor has approved the assumption of the debt by one of the coheirs in accordance with the designated share of the estate.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-902-2/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第九百二条 (Article 902), art-902 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-902 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902
- art-902-2/par-1: 第九百条 → 民法 第九百条 (Article 900), art-900 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-900 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-900
- art-902-2/par-1: 第九百一条 → 民法 第九百一条 (Article 901), art-901 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-901 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-901

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## 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-20261011T170941-006, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11