# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百五十二条 (Article 952) - 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: 第九百五十二条 (Article 952)（相続財産の清算人の選任） — address `art-952` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-952 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952 - 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. --- ### 第九百五十二条（相続財産の清算人の選任） — Appointment of a Liquidator of the Estate caption: machine translation, not official art-952 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-952 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952 **第一項** 前条の場合には、家庭裁判所は、利害関係人又は検察官の請求によって、相続財産の清算人を選任しなければならない。 art-952/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-952/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952/par-1 In a case as referred to in the preceding Article, the family court must appoint a liquidator to the estate at the request of an interested party or the public prosecutor. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により相続財産の清算人を選任したときは、家庭裁判所は、遅滞なく、その旨及び相続人があるならば一定の期間内にその権利を主張すべき旨を公告しなければならない。この場合において、その期間は、六箇月を下ることができない。 art-952/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-952/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952/par-2 When a liquidator to the estate has been appointed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the family court must, without delay, issue public notice to that effect and to the effect that an heir, if any, must assert the heir's rights within a fixed period. In this case, that period may not be less than six months. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-952/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第九百五十一条 (Article 951), art-951 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-951 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-951 - art-952/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第九百五十二条第一項 (Article 952, paragraph (1)), art-952/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-952/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百九十七条の二第一項（相続財産の保存） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-897-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-897-2/par-1 - 民法 第九百四十条第一項（相続の放棄をした者による管理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-940/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-940/par-1 - 民法 第九百五十二条第二項（相続財産の清算人の選任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-952/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952/par-2 - 民法 第九百五十三条第一項（不在者の財産の管理人に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-953/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-953/par-1 - 民法 第九百五十七条第一項（相続債権者及び受遺者に対する弁済） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-957/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-957/par-1 - 民法 第九百五十八条第一項（権利を主張する者がない場合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-958/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958/par-1 - 民法 第九百五十八条の二第二項（特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-958-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-958-2/par-2 - 民法 附則第四条第二項（相続財産の清算に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-4/par-2 - 民法 附則第四条第三項（相続財産の清算に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5031-24/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-24/art-4/par-3 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-007, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11