# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28) - 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: 第二十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28) — address `suppl-3221-222/art-28` - 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-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条 suppl-3221-222/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-28 **第一項** 応急措置法施行の際戸主であつた者が応急措置法施行後に婚姻の取消若しくは離婚又は養子縁組の取消若しくは離縁によつて氏を改めた場合には、配偶者又は養親、若し配偶者又は養親がないときは新法によるその相続人は、その者に対し財産の一部の分配を請求することができる。この場合には、前条第二項及び第三項の規定を準用する。 suppl-3221-222/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-28/par-1 If the person who was the head of the household at the time the Emergency Measures Act came into effect changes surname after the Emergency Measures Act came into effect through the cancellation of a marriage or divorce, or the annulment of an adoption or dissolution of the adoptive relationship, the spouse or adoptive parent, or, if there is no spouse or adoptive parent, the heirs thereof under the New Act, may demand from that person distribution of part of the property. In this case, the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3221-222/art-28/par-1: 前条第二項 → 民法 附則第二十七条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 27, paragraph (2)), suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-2 - suppl-3221-222/art-28/par-1: 第三項 → 民法 附則第二十七条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 27, paragraph (3)), suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-27/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第二十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-25/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-20261011T170941-012, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11