# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第二十六条 (Article 26) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-26. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 人事訴訟法 (Personal Status Litigation Act), 平成十五年法律第百九号 - English title "Personal Status Litigation Act": 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: 第二十六条 (Article 26)（訴訟手続の中断及び受継） — address `art-26` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-26 - 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. --- ### 第二十六条（訴訟手続の中断及び受継） — (Continuance of Litigation Proceedings and Substitution) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-26 **第一項** 第十二条第二項の規定により人事に関する訴えに係る身分関係の当事者の双方を被告とする場合において、その一方が死亡したときは、他の一方を被告として訴訟を追行する。この場合においては、民事訴訟法第百二十四条第一項第一号の規定は、適用しない。 art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-26/par-1 If both of the parties to the familial relationship that an action related to personal status concerns are named as defendants pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (2) and one of them dies, litigation proceeds with the other party as the defendant. The provisions of Article 124, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Code of Civil Procedure do not apply in that case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第十二条第一項又は第二項の場合において、被告がいずれも死亡したときは、検察官を被告として訴訟を追行する。 art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-26/par-2 In a case as referred to in Article 12, paragraph (1) or (2), if all of the defendants die, the litigation proceeds with the public prosecutor as the defendant. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-26/par-1: 第十二条第二項 → 人事訴訟法 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-12/par-2 - art-26/par-1: 民事訴訟法第百二十四条第一項第一号 → 民事訴訟法 第百二十四条第一項第一号 (Article 124, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-124/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-124/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-124/par-1/item-1 - art-26/par-2: 第十二条第一項 → 人事訴訟法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-12/par-1 - art-26/par-2: 第二項 → 人事訴訟法 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-12/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第二十七条第二項（当事者の死亡による人事訴訟の終了） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-27/par-2 - 人事訴訟法 第四十四条第二項（認知の訴えの当事者等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-44/par-2 - 人事訴訟法 第四十五条第三項（父を定めることを目的とする訴えの当事者等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02