Article 59Attendance of Family Court Investigating Officer on Dates for Proceedings
第五十九条(家庭裁判所調査官の期日への立会い等)
A family court may, when it finds it to be necessary, have a family court investigating officer attend on a date for proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations.
家庭裁判所は、必要があると認めるときは、家事審判の手続の期日に家庭裁判所調査官を立ち会わせることができる。
A family court may, when it finds it to be necessary, have the family court investigating officer, who attends on a date for proceedings pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, state their own opinion.
家庭裁判所は、必要があると認めるときは、前項の規定により立ち会わせた家庭裁判所調査官に意見を述べさせることができる。
A family court may, when it finds it to be appropriate, after hearing the opinions of the parties, on a date for proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations, by means that enables the family court and both parties to communicate simultaneously with the family court investigating officer by audio transmissions as provided for in the Rules of the Supreme Court, have the family court investigating officer attend the date for proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations and state the opinion referred to in the preceding paragraph on that date.
家庭裁判所は、相当と認めるときは、当事者の意見を聴いて、家事審判の手続の期日において、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、家庭裁判所及び当事者双方が家庭裁判所調査官との間で音声の送受信により同時に通話をすることができる方法によって、家庭裁判所調査官に家事審判の手続の期日に立ち会わせ、当該期日において前項の意見を述べさせることができる。
When a family court, in connection with the processing of a case for adjudication of domestic relations, finds it to be necessary in order to coordinate the family environment and other environments of a person concerned with the case, it may have a family court investigating officer communicate with a social welfare organization or take other measures.
家庭裁判所は、家事審判事件の処理に関し、事件の関係人の家庭環境その他の環境の調整を行うために必要があると認めるときは、家庭裁判所調査官に社会福祉機関との連絡その他の措置をとらせることができる。
If there are pressing circumstances, the presiding judge may have a family court investigating officer take the measures set forth in the preceding paragraph.
急迫の事情があるときは、裁判長が、前項の措置をとらせることができる。
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