Changes by (Act No. 45 of 2026)
In the following adjudication cases (including adjudication cases for a provisional order sought by designating the adjudication cases set forth in items (i), (iv), and (vi) as cases on the merits), a person who is or is to be an adult under guardianship may participate in proceedings themselves, not through their legal representative, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 31 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1). The same applies when the person is a person under curatorship or a person under assistance (limited to a person under assistance who is required to obtain consent from the assistant for performing procedural acts) and the person has not obtained consent from the curator or supervisor of the curator or the assistant or supervisor of the assistant:
Changes by (Act No. 45 of 2026)
an adjudication case for the revocation of a ruling of the commencement of guardianship (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (2));
後見開始の審判の取消しの審判事件（別表第一の二の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。）
Changes by (Act No. 45 of 2026)
an adjudication case for the appointment of a guardian of an adult (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (3));
成年後見人の選任の審判事件（別表第一の三の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。）
Changes and moves to item (v) by (Act No. 45 of 2026)
an adjudication case for the dismissal of a guardian of an adult (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (5); the same applies in Article 127, paragraph (1));
成年後見人の解任の審判事件（別表第一の五の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。第百二十七条第一項において同じ。）
Changes and moves to item (xii) by (Act No. 45 of 2026)
an adjudication case for the appointment of a supervisor of a guardian of an adult (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (6));
成年後見監督人の選任の審判事件（別表第一の六の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。）
Changes and moves to item (xiii) by (Act No. 45 of 2026)
an adjudication case for the dismissal of a supervisor of a guardian of an adult (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (8); the same applies in Article 127, paragraph (5));
成年後見監督人の解任の審判事件（別表第一の八の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。第百二十七条第五項において同じ。）
Changes and moves to item (xiv) by (Act No. 45 of 2026)
an adjudication case for the appointment of a special representative for an adult under guardianship (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (12));
成年被後見人に関する特別代理人の選任の審判事件（別表第一の十二の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。）
Changes and moves to item (xvi) by (Act No. 45 of 2026)
an adjudication case for the commission of delivery of a postal item or a letter item prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators (Act No. 99 of 2002) (hereinafter referred to as a "postal item, etc.") that is addressed to an adult under guardianship, and for the rescission or change of that commission (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (12)-2; referred to as an "adjudication case for the commission of, or the rescission or change of the commission of, delivery of a postal item, etc. addressed to an adult under guardianship" in Article 123-2);
成年被後見人に宛てた郵便物又は民間事業者による信書の送達に関する法律（平成十四年法律第九十九号）第二条第三項に規定する信書便物（以下「郵便物等」という。）の配達の嘱託及びその嘱託の取消し又は変更の審判事件（別表第一の十二の二の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。第百二十三条の二において「成年被後見人に宛てた郵便物等の配達の嘱託等の審判事件」という。）
Changes and moves to item (xvii) by (Act No. 45 of 2026)
an adjudication case for the supervision of the affairs of the guardianship of an adult (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (14)); and
成年後見の事務の監督の審判事件（別表第一の十四の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。）
Removed by (Act No. 45 of 2026)
an adjudication case of a disposition regarding the administration of property offered to an adult under guardianship by a third party (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (15); the same applies in Article 125, paragraphs (1) and (2)).
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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)
provisional ordermachine translation
「保全処分」
A provisional order the family court hearing a domestic relations case makes by ruling (審判) before it decides the case — a provisional seizure (仮差押え), a provisional disposition (仮処分), the appointment of an administrator of property or another necessary measure under Article 105, paragraph (1) — or the judicial decision a high court makes in its place when the case is before that court.
Defined inArticle 106, paragraph (1)
adjudication case for the commencement of guardianshipmachine translation
「後見開始の審判事件」
A case in which the family court decides whether to commence guardianship (後見開始) for an adult, the matter in row 1 of Appended Table 1 (別表第一); it belongs to the family court for the domicile of the person who would become an adult ward (成年被後見人).
Defined inArticle 117, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 117, paragraph (2); and Article 118, paragraph (1), item (i)
adjudication case for the dismissal of a guardian of an adultmachine translation
「成年後見人の解任の審判事件」
A case in which the family court decides whether to dismiss a guardian of an adult (成年後見人), the matter in row 5 of Appended Table 1 (別表第一).
Defined inArticle 118, paragraph (1), item (iv)· applies only in this provision and in Article 127, paragraph (1)
adjudication case for the dismissal of a supervisor of a guardian of an adultmachine translation
「成年後見監督人の解任の審判事件」
A case in which the family court decides whether to dismiss a supervisor of a guardian of an adult (成年後見監督人), the matter in row 8 of Appended Table 1 (別表第一).
Defined inArticle 118, paragraph (1), item (vi)· applies only in this provision and in Article 127, paragraph (5)
adjudication case for the commission of, or the rescission or change of the commission of, delivery of a postal item, etc. addressed to an adult under guardianshipmachine translation
「成年被後見人に宛てた郵便物等の配達の嘱託等の審判事件」
A case in which the family court decides whether to ask a correspondence delivery business to deliver mail or correspondence items (郵便物等) addressed to an adult ward (成年被後見人) to the guardian of an adult (成年後見人) instead, or to revoke or change that request — the matter in row 12-2 of Appended Table 1 (別表第一).
Short name set inArticle 118, paragraph (1), item (viii)· applies only in this provision and in Article 123-2
postal item, etc.machine translation
「郵便物等」
Mail (郵便物), or a correspondence item (信書便物) as Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators defines it, addressed to an adult ward (成年被後見人).
Short name set inArticle 118, paragraph (1), item (viii)