Adjudication cases regarding the division of an estate are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place where the inheritance process has commenced.
遺産の分割に関する審判事件は、相続が開始した地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, where an adjudication case for the division of an estate (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (12); the same applies hereinafter) is pending before a court, an adjudication case for a disposition to determine an heir's amount of contribution (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (14); the same applies in the following Article) is subject to the jurisdiction of the court before which the adjudication case for the division of an estate is pending.
adjudication case for the division of an estatemachine translation
「遺産の分割の審判事件」
A case in which the family court decides how a deceased person's estate is to be divided among the heirs (遺産の分割), the matter in row 12 of Appended Table 2 (別表第二).
Defined inArticle 191, paragraph (2)