# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百九条の二 (Article 909-2) - 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: 第九百九条の二 (Article 909-2)（遺産の分割前における預貯金債権の行使） — address `art-909-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-909-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-909-2 - 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. --- ### 第九百九条の二（遺産の分割前における預貯金債権の行使） — Exercise of Claims for Deposits before Division of the Estate caption: machine translation, not official art-909-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-909-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-909-2 **第一項** 各共同相続人は、遺産に属する預貯金債権のうち相続開始の時の債権額の三分の一に第九百条及び第九百一条の規定により算定した当該共同相続人の相続分を乗じた額（標準的な当面の必要生計費、平均的な葬式の費用の額その他の事情を勘案して預貯金債権の債務者ごとに法務省令で定める額を限度とする。）については、単独でその権利を行使することができる。この場合において、当該権利の行使をした預貯金債権については、当該共同相続人が遺産の一部の分割によりこれを取得したものとみなす。 art-909-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-909-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-909-2/par-1 Each coheir may exercise the right alone with respect to the amount obtained by multiplying one third of the amount of a claim for deposits belonging to the estate as of the opening of succession by the share of the estate of that coheir calculated pursuant to the provisions of Articles 900 and 901 (limited, for each obligor of a claim for deposits, to the amount specified by Ministry of Justice Order in consideration of the standard living expenses currently required, the average amount of funeral expenses and other circumstances). In this case, the claim for deposits with respect to which the right has been exercised is deemed to have been acquired by that coheir through a division of part of the estate. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-909-2/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-909-2/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 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第五条第一項（遺産の分割前における預貯金債権の行使に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-1 - 民法 附則第五条第二項（遺産の分割前における預貯金債権の行使に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-5/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-20261011T170941-006, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11