Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act

An adjudication case for a disposition regarding the administration of the property of an absentee is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the previous place of domicile or residence of the absentee.

A family court may, at any time, replace an administrator appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code or an administrator appointed to be a replacement pursuant to Article 26 of the Code, with another.

A family court may order an administrator appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code or an administrator appointed to be a replacement pursuant to the provisions of Article 26 of the Code, and an administrator appointed to be a replacement pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (referred to as an "administrator appointed by a family court" in paragraphs (4) and (6), the following Article and Article 147) to report on the status of the property and settle the account for administration. In the case set forth in Article 27, paragraph (2) of the Code, the same applies to an administrator appointed by an absentee.

Costs required for the report and settlement of the account set forth in the preceding paragraph are paid out of the property of an absentee.

A family court may issue an order to an administrator (meaning an administrator appointed by a family court and an administrator appointed by an absentee; the same applies in the following paragraph and Article 147) for an increase or decrease in or a change to the security that the administrator has provided, or exemption from providing the security.

When a ruling to order a mortgage to be established on the real property or vessel owned by an administrator becomes effective, a court clerk must commission the registration of the establishment thereof. The same applies to a registration of a change or the extinction of a mortgage thus established.

The provisions of Articles 644, 646, 647, and 650 of the Civil Code apply mutatis mutandis to an administrator appointed by a family court.

An administrator appointed by a family court may, when money has arisen from the administration or disposition of the absentee's property or for any other reason, deposit that money, for the absentee, at the official depository within the judicial district of the family court which has jurisdiction over the location of the court that has ordered a disposition regarding the administration of the absentee's property.

When an administrator appointed by a family court has made a deposit under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the administrator must give public notice of that fact and other particulars specified by Ministry of Justice Order, as provided by Ministry of Justice Order.

When an absentee has become able to administer their own property, the property under administration no longer exists (including when the whole of the property to be administered by an administrator appointed by a family court has been deposited) or it has otherwise become inappropriate to continue to place the absentee's property under administration, the family court must make a ruling to revoke the appointment of an administrator under the provisions of Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code or any other disposition regarding the administration of the property of the absentee, upon the petition of the absentee, the administrator, or any interested party or by its own authority.