When a person, whose capacity to participate in proceedings has been limited, intends to participate in proceedings pursuant to the provisions of Article 118 (including the cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to other provisions of this Act) or Article 252, paragraph (1), the presiding judge may, upon petition, appoint an attorney as the person's counsel when the presiding judge finds it to be necessary.
手続行為につき行為能力の制限を受けた者が第百十八条（この法律の他の規定において準用する場合を含む。）又は第二百五十二条第一項の規定により手続行為をしようとする場合において、必要があると認めるときは、裁判長は、申立てにより、弁護士を手続代理人に選任することができる。
Also when a person, whose capacity to participate in proceedings has been limited, does not file the petition set forth in the preceding paragraph, the presiding judge may order that an attorney be appointed as the person's counsel or appoint an attorney as the person's counsel by the presiding judge's own authority.
The amount of remuneration to be paid by a person, whose capacity to participate in proceedings has been limited, to the attorney appointed as the person's counsel by the presiding judge pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs is to be such an amount as considered reasonable by the court.
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)