Civil Code Article 968
This English translation was last updated on 2021-01-20, but the Chinese text was amended on 2026-08-17. Later amendments may not be reflected in the translation — please refer to the Chinese text.
The degree of relationship by blood between a person and his lineal relative by blood shall be determined by counting the number of generations upwards or downwards from himself [as the case may be], one generation being taken as one degree. As between the person and his collateral relative, the degree of relationship shall be determined by the total number of generations counting upwards from himself to the common lineal ancestor and then from such common ancestor downwards to the relative by blood with whom the degree of relationship is to be determined.
中文原文 民法第968條
血親親等之計算，直系血親，從己身上下數，以一世為一親等；旁系血親，從己身數至同源之直系血親，再由同源之直系血親，數至與之計算親等之血親，以其總世數為親等之數。