Section 10 Adjudication Cases Regarding Support

①An adjudication case for the establishment of a duty to support (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (84)) is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a person who is to be a person under a duty to provide support (in the case of a petition for the establishment of a duty to support for two or more persons, one of such persons).

②An adjudication case for the revocation of the establishment of a duty to support (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (85)) is subject to the jurisdiction of a family court that has made a ruling of the establishment of a duty to support (if the court in charge of an appeal has made a judicial decision of the establishment of a duty to support, the family court that is the court of first instance).

③An adjudication case for a determination of the order of support and for a change or revocation of such determination (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (9)), and an adjudication case for a determination of the extent or method of the support and for a change or revocation of the determination (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (10); the same applies in Article 184-2, paragraph (1)) are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of the respondent (in the case of a petition filed against two or more respondents, one of such respondents).

In the case of filing a petition for the establishment of a duty to support by uniting it with a petition for the appointment of a custodian under the provisions of Article 23-2, paragraph (2), item (iv) of the Act on Medical Care and Treatment for Persons Who Have Caused Serious Cases Under the Condition of Insanity (Act No. 110 of 2003), it may be filed with the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of the subject prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the same Act.

When making the rulings set forth in the following items, the family court must hear statements from the persons specified respectively in these items (excluding the petitioner):

①In an adjudication case for a determination of the extent or method of support, and for a change or revocation of the determination, a family court may, when it finds it to be necessary, upon petition or by its own authority, order a party to disclose information regarding the status of their income and assets.

②When a party who has been ordered to disclose information pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph fails to disclose the information without justifiable grounds or discloses false information, the family court punishes the party by a non-criminal fine of up to 100,000 yen.

In a ruling of a determination of the extent or method of support, and of a change or revocation of the determination, the family court may order a party to pay money, deliver an object, perform an obligation to register, or perform any other act.

An immediate appeal may be filed against the rulings set forth in the following items by the persons specified respectively in these items:

When a petition for adjudication or mediation regarding the following matters is filed, and when it is necessary for the preservation of a compulsory execution or the prevention of an imminent danger to a person concerned with the case, the family court (or a high court in the case set forth in Article 105, paragraph (2)) may, upon the petition of the person who has filed the petition, issue a ruling of provisional seizure, provisional disposition, or any other necessary provisional order by designating the adjudication case on the matter as a case on the merits: