Article 16Disqualification of Family Court Investigating officer and Domestic Relations Mediation Commissioner
第十六条（家庭裁判所調査官及び家事調停委員の除斥）
With regard to the disqualification of a family court investigating officer and a domestic relations mediation commissioner, the provisions of Article 10, and Article 12, paragraphs (2), (8), and (9) (excluding the parts concerning a challenge) apply mutatis mutandis.
When a motion for disqualification of a family court investigating officer or domestic relations mediation commissioner is filed, the family court investigating officer or domestic relations mediation commissioner may not participate in the domestic relations case pertaining to the motion until a judicial decision on the motion becomes final and binding.
家庭裁判所調査官又は家事調停委員について除斥の申立てがあったときは、その家庭裁判所調査官又は家事調停委員は、その申立てについての裁判が確定するまでその申立てがあった家事事件に関与することができない。
A judicial decision on the disqualification of a family court investigating officer or domestic relations mediation commissioner is to be made by the court to which the family court investigating officer or domestic relations mediation commissioner belongs.
家庭裁判所調査官又は家事調停委員の除斥についての裁判は、家庭裁判所調査官又は家事調停委員の所属する裁判所がする。
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)