# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百五十条 (Article 950) - 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: 第九百五十条 (Article 950)（相続人の債権者の請求による財産分離） — address `art-950` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-950 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-950 - 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. --- ### 第九百五十条（相続人の債権者の請求による財産分離） — (Separation of Patrimony at the Request of the Creditor of an Heir) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-950 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-950 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-950 **第一項** 相続人が限定承認をすることができる間又は相続財産が相続人の固有財産と混合しない間は、相続人の債権者は、家庭裁判所に対して財産分離の請求をすることができる。 art-950/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-950/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-950/par-1 While an heir may yet assert a qualified acceptance, or while the estate has not yet been mixed with the heir's own property, a creditor of the heir may file a request with the family court for a separation of patrimony. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三百四条、第九百二十五条、第九百二十七条から第九百三十四条まで、第九百四十三条から第九百四十五条まで及び第九百四十八条の規定は、前項の場合について準用する。ただし、第九百二十七条の公告及び催告は、財産分離の請求をした債権者がしなければならない。 art-950/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-950/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-950/par-2 The provisions of Article 304; Article 925; Article 927 through Article 934; Article 943 through Article 945; and Article 948 apply mutatis mutandis to a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph; provided, however, that the public notice and notice to file referred to in Article 927 must be issued by the creditor requesting the separation of patrimony. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-950/par-2: 第三百四条 → 民法 第三百四条 (Article 304), art-304 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-304 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-304 - art-950/par-2: 第九百二十五条 → 民法 第九百二十五条 (Article 925), art-925 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-925 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-925 - art-950/par-2: 第九百二十七条から第九百三十四条まで → 民法 第九百二十七条 (Article 927), art-927 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-927 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-927 - art-950/par-2: 第九百二十七条から第九百三十四条まで → 民法 第九百二十八条 (Article 928), art-928 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-928 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-928 - art-950/par-2: 第九百二十七条から第九百三十四条まで → 民法 第九百二十九条 (Article 929), art-929 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-929 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-929 - art-950/par-2: 第九百二十七条から第九百三十四条まで → 民法 第九百三十条 (Article 930), art-930 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-930 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-930 - art-950/par-2: 第九百二十七条から第九百三十四条まで → 民法 第九百三十一条 (Article 931), art-931 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-931 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-931 - art-950/par-2: 第九百二十七条から第九百三十四条まで → 民法 第九百三十二条 (Article 932), art-932 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-932 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-932 - art-950/par-2: 第九百二十七条から第九百三十四条まで → 民法 第九百三十三条 (Article 933), art-933 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-933 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-933 - art-950/par-2: 第九百二十七条から第九百三十四条まで → 民法 第九百三十四条 (Article 934), art-934 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-934 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-934 - art-950/par-2: 第九百四十三条から第九百四十五条まで → 民法 第九百四十三条 (Article 943), art-943 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-943 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-943 - art-950/par-2: 第九百四十三条から第九百四十五条まで → 民法 第九百四十四条 (Article 944), art-944 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-944 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-944 - art-950/par-2: 第九百四十三条から第九百四十五条まで → 民法 第九百四十五条 (Article 945), art-945 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-945 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-945 - art-950/par-2: 第九百四十八条 → 民法 第九百四十八条 (Article 948), art-948 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-948 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-948 - art-950/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第九百五十条第一項 (Article 950, paragraph (1)), art-950/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-950/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-950/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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