Adjudication cases regarding parental authority are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of the child (in the case of a petition for the designation or change of a person who has parental authority, for the designation of a person exercising parental authority alone, or for a disposition regarding the administration of property offered to a child by a third party with respect to two or more children who have the same father or mother, one of the children).
親権に関する審判事件は、子(父又は母を同じくする数人の子についての親権者の指定若しくは変更、親権行使者の指定又は第三者が子に与えた財産の管理に関する処分の申立てに係るものにあっては、そのうちの一人)の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。