An adjudication case for the establishment of a special adoption is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a person who is to adopt another person.
特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件は、養親となるべき者の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。
A person who is to be adopted must be a person subject to a ruling of confirmation of eligibility for a special adoption (meaning confirmation that the person who is to be adopted has the requirements set forth in Article 817-6 of the Civil Code, and the parents specified in Article 817-7 of the same Code may be considerably difficult or inappropriate to take care of a person who is to be adopted, or that there is any other special circumstances; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article) (limited to those filed by the petitioner pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the Article) or a person subject to a ruling for confirmation of eligibility for a special adoption upon petition by the director of a child guidance center (limited to those determined after the date, which is six months before the date of the petition for the establishment of a special adoption).
養子となるべき者は、特別養子適格の確認（養子となるべき者について民法第八百十七条の六に定める要件があること及び同法第八百十七条の七に規定する父母による養子となる者の監護が著しく困難又は不適当であることその他特別の事情がある場合に該当することについての確認をいう。以下この条及び次条において同じ。）の審判（申立人の同条第一項の規定による申立てによりされたものに限る。）を受けた者又は児童相談所長の申立てによる特別養子適格の確認の審判（特別養子縁組の成立の申立ての日の六箇月前の日以後に確定したものに限る。）を受けた者でなければならない。
The person who has parental authority over the person who is to be adopted (excluding the other prescribed in the provisions of the proviso to Article 817-3, paragraph (2) of the Civil Code, who is the spouse of the petitioner; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) and those who exercise parental authority over the person who has parental authority over the person who is to be adopted may not participate in proceedings on behalf of the person who is to be adopted in an adjudication case for the establishment of a special adoption.
養子となるべき者の親権者（申立人の配偶者である民法第八百十七条の三第二項ただし書に規定する他の一方を除く。以下この項において同じ。）及びその親権者に対し親権を行う者は、特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件において養子となるべき者を代理して手続行為をすることができない。
The parents of the person who is to be adopted (excluding the other one prescribed in the proviso to Article 817-3, paragraph (2) of the Civil Code, who is the spouse of the petitioner. The same applies in paragraph (10)), notwithstanding the provisions of Article 42, paragraphs (1) and (3), may not participate in the proceedings of an adjudication case for the establishment of a special adoption.
養子となるべき者の父母（申立人の配偶者である民法第八百十七条の三第二項ただし書に規定する他の一方を除く。第十項において同じ。）は、第四十二条第一項及び第三項の規定にかかわらず、特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件の手続に参加することができない。
The provisions of Article 118 apply mutatis mutandis to a person who is to adopt another and a person who is to be adopted, and the other person prescribed in the proviso of Article 817-3, paragraph (2) of the Civil Code, who is a spouse of the petitioner in an adjudication case for the establishment of a special adoption (including an adjudication case for a provisional order sought by designating the adjudication case as a case on the merits).
第百十八条の規定は、特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件（当該審判事件を本案とする保全処分についての審判事件を含む。）における養親となるべき者並びに養子となるべき者及び申立人の配偶者である民法第八百十七条の三第二項ただし書に規定する他の一方について準用する。
When making a ruling of the establishment of a special adoption, the family court must hear statements from the following persons.
家庭裁判所は、特別養子縁組の成立の審判をする場合には、次に掲げる者の陳述を聴かなければならない。
the person who is to be adopted (limited to those aged 15 or older);
養子となるべき者（十五歳以上のものに限る。）
the person who exercises parental authority over the person who is to be adopted (excluding parents of the person who is to be adopted and person who exercises parental authority over the parents of a person who is to be adopted), and a guardian of the minor who is to be adopted.
養子となるべき者に対し親権を行う者（養子となるべき者の父母及び養子となるべき者の親権者に対し親権を行う者を除く。）及び養子となるべき者の未成年後見人
A ruling of the confirmation of eligibility for a special adoption (including ruling of the confirmation of eligibility for a special adoption upon petition by the director of child guidance center; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) binds the court before which an adjudication case for the establishment of a special adoption is pending. In this case, a ruling of the confirmation of eligibility for a special adoption, in relation to the adjudication case for the establishment of a special adoption, is deemed to have been made at the time of ruling for the establishment of a special adoption.
特別養子適格の確認の審判（児童相談所長の申立てによる特別養子適格の確認の審判を含む。以下この項において同じ。）は、特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件の係属する裁判所を拘束する。この場合において、特別養子適格の確認の審判は、特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件との関係においては、特別養子縁組の成立の審判をする時においてしたものとみなす。
Notice of a ruling of the establishment of a special adoption must be given to the persons set forth in paragraph (6), item (ii), beyond the persons prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (1).
Notice of a ruling of the establishment of a special adoption is not required to be given to the person who is to be adopted when the family court finds that the notice would harm the interests of the person in consideration of the person's age, degree of development, and in all other circumstances; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person who is to be adopted has reached the age of fifteen.
特別養子縁組の成立の審判は、養子となるべき者の年齢及び発達の程度その他一切の事情を考慮してその者の利益を害すると認める場合には、その者に告知することを要しない。ただし、養子となるべき者が十五歳に達している場合は、この限りでない。
Notice of a ruling of the establishment of a special adoption is not required to be given to the parents of the person who is to be adopted; provided, however, that the date of ruling and the main text of the ruling must be notified to the parents whose address or residence is known.
特別養子縁組の成立の審判は、養子となるべき者の父母に告知することを要しない。ただし、住所又は居所が知れている父母に対しては、審判をした日及び審判の主文を通知しなければならない。
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2), the family court may make a ruling of the establishment of a special adoption at the same time as a ruling of confirmation of the eligibility for a special adoption. In this case, the ruling of the establishment of a special adoption has not been finalized until the ruling of confirmation of the eligibility for a special adoption is finalized.
In the case set forth in the provisions of the first sentence of the preceding paragraph, if the judicial decision revoking the ruling on confirmation of eligibility for a special adoption is finalized, the family court must revoke the ruling of the establishment of a special adoption by its own authority.
A ruling of the establishment of a special adoption does not become final and binding after the date when the person who is to be adopted reaches the age of eighteen. In this case, the family court must revoke the ruling by its own authority.
特別養子縁組の成立の審判は、養子となるべき者が十八歳に達した日以後は、確定しないものとする。この場合においては、家庭裁判所は、職権で、その審判を取り消さなければならない。
An immediate appeal may be filed against the rulings set forth in the following items by the persons specified respectively in these items:
次の各号に掲げる審判に対しては、当該各号に定める者は、即時抗告をすることができる。
a ruling of the establishment of a special adoption:the person who is to be adopted and the person set forth in paragraph (6), item (ii).
特別養子縁組の成立の審判 養子となるべき者及び第六項第二号に掲げる者
a ruling to dismiss a petition for the establishment of a special adoption:the petitioner.
特別養子縁組の成立の申立てを却下する審判 申立人
The period of an immediate appeal filed against a ruling of the establishment of a special adoption by a person who is to be adopted (limited to those under the age of 15) runs from the date on which a person other than the person who is to be adopted receives a notice of the ruling (if there are two or more such days, the latest day).
養子となるべき者（十五歳未満のものに限る。）による特別養子縁組の成立の審判に対する即時抗告の期間は、養子となるべき者以外の者が審判の告知を受けた日（二以上あるときは、当該日のうち最も遅い日）から進行する。
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procedural actmachine translation
「手続行為」
An act a person performs in the proceedings of a domestic relations case (家事事件).
Short name set inArticle 17, paragraph (1)
provisional ordermachine translation
「保全処分」
A provisional order the family court hearing a domestic relations case makes by ruling (審判) before it decides the case — a provisional seizure (仮差押え), a provisional disposition (仮処分), the appointment of an administrator of property or another necessary measure under Article 105, paragraph (1) — or the judicial decision a high court makes in its place when the case is before that court.
Defined inArticle 106, paragraph (1)
confirmation of eligibility for a special adoptionmachine translation
「特別養子適格の確認」
In Articles 164 and 164-2, the family court's confirmation that a child who is to be adopted meets the requirement of Article 817-6 of the Civil Code (the consent of the child's parents, with its exceptions) and that care of the child by the parents is extremely difficult or inappropriate or there are other special circumstances, as Article 817-7 of that Code describes.
Defined inArticle 164, paragraph (2)· applies only in this article and in Article 164-2