# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百四十四条 (Article 944) - 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: 第九百四十四条 (Article 944)（財産分離の請求後の相続人による管理） — address `art-944` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-944 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-944 - 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. --- ### 第九百四十四条（財産分離の請求後の相続人による管理） — (Administration by Heir after a Request for a Separation of Patrimony) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-944 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-944 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-944 **第一項** 相続人は、単純承認をした後でも、財産分離の請求があったときは、以後、その固有財産におけるのと同一の注意をもって、相続財産の管理をしなければならない。ただし、家庭裁判所が相続財産の管理人を選任したときは、この限りでない。 art-944/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-944/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-944/par-1 Even after an heir unconditionally accepts the succession, the heir must administer the estate with the same care that the heir would exercise over the heir's own property if a request for a separation of patrimony is filed; provided, however, that this does not apply if the family court appoints an administrator to the estate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第六百四十五条から第六百四十七条まで並びに第六百五十条第一項及び第二項の規定は、前項の場合について準用する。 art-944/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-944/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-944/par-2 The provisions of Article 645 through Article 647 and Article 650, paragraph (1) and (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-944/par-2: 第六百四十五条から第六百四十七条まで → 民法 第六百四十五条 (Article 645), art-645 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-645 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-645 - art-944/par-2: 第六百四十五条から第六百四十七条まで → 民法 第六百四十六条 (Article 646), art-646 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-646 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-646 - art-944/par-2: 第六百四十五条から第六百四十七条まで → 民法 第六百四十七条 (Article 647), art-647 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-647 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-647 - art-944/par-2: 第六百五十条第一項 → 民法 第六百五十条第一項 (Article 650, paragraph (1)), art-650/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-650/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-650/par-1 - art-944/par-2: 第二項 → 民法 第六百五十条第二項 (Article 650, paragraph (2)), art-650/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-650/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-650/par-2 - art-944/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第九百四十四条第一項 (Article 944, paragraph (1)), art-944/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-944/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-944/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百四十四条第二項（財産分離の請求後の相続人による管理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-944/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-944/par-2 - 民法 第九百五十条第二項（相続人の債権者の請求による財産分離） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-950/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-950/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