# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第四十五条 (Article 45) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45. 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: 第四十五条 (Article 45)（父を定めることを目的とする訴えの当事者等） — address `art-45` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45 - 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. --- ### 第四十五条（父を定めることを目的とする訴えの当事者等） — (Parties to an Action to Establish Paternity) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45 **第一項** 子、母、母の前婚の配偶者又はその後婚の配偶者は、民法第七百七十三条の規定により父を定めることを目的とする訴えを提起することができる。 art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45/par-1 A child, mother, or the mother's spouse from an earlier or later marriage may file an action to establish paternity pursuant to the provisions of Article 773 of the Civil Code. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 次の各号に掲げる者が提起する前項の訴えにおいては、それぞれ当該各号に定める者を被告とし、これらの者が死亡した後は、検察官を被告とする。 art-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45/par-2 In an action as referred to in the preceding paragraph that a person set forth in one of the following items files, the person specified in that item is to be named as the defendant; after the person in question has died, the public prosecutor is to be named as the defendant: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 子又は母　母の前婚の配偶者及びその後婚の配偶者（その一方が死亡した後は、他の一方） art-45/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45/par-2/item-1 the child or mother: the mother's spouses from an earlier and later marriage (or, after one of them has died, the other one); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 母の前婚の配偶者　母の後婚の配偶者 art-45/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45/par-2/item-2 the mother's spouse from an earlier marriage: the mother's spouse from a later marriage; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 母の後婚の配偶者　母の前婚の配偶者 art-45/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45/par-2/item-3 the mother's spouse from a later marriage: the mother's spouse from an earlier marriage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第二十六条の規定は、前項の規定により同項各号に定める者を当該訴えの被告とする場合においてこれらの者が死亡したときについて準用する。 art-45/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45/par-3 The provisions of Article 26 apply mutatis mutandis if a person specified in one of the items of the preceding paragraph is named as a defendant pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and then dies. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-45/par-1: 民法第七百七十三条 → 民法 第七百七十三条 (Article 773), art-773 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-773 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-773 - art-45/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45/par-1 - art-45/par-3: 第二十六条 → 人事訴訟法 第二十六条 (Article 26), art-26 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-26 - art-45/par-3: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第四十五条第二項 (Article 45, paragraph (2)), art-45/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第四十五条第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-45/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