# 民法 / Civil Code — 第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14) - 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: 第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14) — address `suppl-3221-222/art-14` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-14 - 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. --- ### 第十四条 suppl-3221-222/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-14 **第一項** 新法施行の際、現に、婚姻中でない父母が、共同して未成年の子に対して親権を行つている場合には、新法施行後も、引き続き共同して親権を行う。但し、父母は、協議でその一方を親権者と定めることができる。 suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-1 If, at the time the New Act comes into effect, parents who are not married to each other are in fact jointly exercising parental authority over a minor child, they continue to jointly exercise parental authority after the New Act comes into effect; provided, however, that the parents may, by agreement, determine one of them to be the person with parental authority. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項但書の協議が調わないとき、又は協議をすることができないときは、家事審判所は、父又は母の請求によつて協議に代わる審判をすることができる。 suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-2 If the agreement referred to in the proviso of the preceding paragraph is not reached, or if discussions cannot be held, the family affairs tribunal may, at the request of the father or mother, make an adjudication in lieu of the agreement. machine translation, not official **第三項** 新法第八百十九条第六項の規定は、第一項但書又は前項の規定によつて親権者が定められた場合にこれを準用する。 suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-3 The provisions of Article 819, paragraph (6) of the New Act apply mutatis mutandis where a person with parental authority has been determined pursuant to the proviso of paragraph (1) or the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-2: 前項 → 民法 附則第十四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14, paragraph (1)), suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-1 - suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-3: 第一項 → 民法 附則第十四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14, paragraph (1)), suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-1 - suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-3: 前項 → 民法 附則第十四条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14, paragraph (2)), suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-2 - 民法 附則第十四条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-14/par-3 - 民法 附則第十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3231-260/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3231-260/art-19/par-1 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-012, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11