For a person who lacks the financial resources to pay the costs necessary to prepare for and undertake a domestic relations case or for a person who will suffer substantial detriment to their standard of living by paying the costs, the court may, upon petition, make a judicial decision to grant judicial aid to the person; provided, however, that this does not apply where it is clear that a person who seeks aid files a petition for adjudication of domestic relations or mediation of domestic relations or performs any other procedural acts for unjust purposes.
The provisions of Article 82, paragraph (2), and Articles 83 through 86 of the Code of Civil Procedure (excluding Article 83, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Code) apply mutatis mutandis to procedural aid. In this case, the phrase "main clause of Article 82, paragraph (1)" in Article 84 of the Code is deemed to be replaced with "main clause of Article 32, paragraph (1) of the Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act".
民事訴訟法第八十二条第二項及び第八十三条から第八十六条まで（同法第八十三条第一項第三号を除く。）の規定は、手続上の救助について準用する。この場合において、同法第八十四条中「第八十二条第一項本文」とあるのは、「家事事件手続法第三十二条第一項本文」と読み替えるものとする。
domestic relations cases
「家事事件」
A case of adjudication of domestic relations (家事審判) or of mediation of domestic relations (家事調停): the family matters whose procedure this Act governs.
Short name set inArticle 1, paragraph (1)
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)