Article 157Provisional Order Sought by Designating an Adjudication Case Regarding Marriage as Case on the Merits

①When a petition for adjudication or mediation regarding the following matters is filed, and when it is necessary for the preservation of a compulsory execution or the prevention of an imminent danger to a child or any other interested party, the family court (or a high court in the case set forth in Article 105, paragraph (2); hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article) may, upon the petition of the person who has filed the petition, issue a ruling of provisional seizure, provisional disposition or any other necessary provisional order by designating the adjudication case on the matter as a case on the merits:

②When a family court orders a provisional disposition to determine a provisional status on the matters set forth in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph (excluding a provisional disposition regarding the sharing of expenses required for the custody of a child), it must hear statements from the child (limited to a child of 15 years of age or older), in addition to hearing statements from a person who is to be subject to adjudication pursuant to the provisions of Article 107; provided, however, that this does not apply when there are circumstances where taking the step of hearing the child's statements makes it impossible to achieve the purpose of the provisional order.