# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二十四節 (Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 24) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 家事事件手続法 (Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act), 平成二十三年法律第五十二号 - English title "Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二十四節 (Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 24) — address `pt-2/ch-2/sec-24` - Text: the text as amended with effect from 2028-06-13 (On a day set by Cabinet Order, no later than 13 June 2028 — the amending law allows up to five years from promulgation. The exact day is not fixed yet.), standing until 2028-12-22 as now scheduled, since the next amendment's day is not fixed — NOT yet in force (revision 20280613_505AC0000000053) - URL (this text's page, at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24 - The same address in the text in force (its wording there may differ): https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24 - Every provision below carries its address and its place on this text's page on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. The Ministry's English is given only where this text's Japanese is a wording the Ministry translated — the same as the text in force, or for a text not yet in force, a wording it translated ahead; every other paragraph's English is machine translation. --- ## 第二十四節　生活保護法等に規定する審判事件 — Section 24 Adjudication Cases Prescribed in the Public Assistance Act, etc. heading: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Section 24 Adjudication Cases Prescribed in the Public Assistance Act" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb pt-2/ch-2/sec-24 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24 ### 第二百四十条 art-240 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24#art-240 **第一項** 施設への入所等についての許可の審判事件（別表第一の百二十九の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。第三項において同じ。）は、被保護者の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-240/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24#art-240/par-1 An adjudication case for permission for admission to a facility, etc. (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (129); the same applies in paragraph (3)) is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a public assistance recipient. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 扶養義務者の負担すべき費用額の確定の審判事件（別表第二の十七の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。）は、扶養義務者（数人に対する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。 art-240/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24#art-240/par-2 An adjudication case for the determination of the amount of expenses to be borne by a person under a duty to support (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (17)) is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a person under a duty to support (in the case of a petition filed against two or more persons under a duty to support, one of the obligors). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第百十八条の規定は、施設への入所等についての許可の審判事件における被保護者、被保護者に対し親権を行う者及び被保護者の後見人について準用する。 art-240/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24#art-240/par-3 The provisions of Article 118 apply mutatis mutandis to a public assistance recipient, a person who exercises parental authority over a public assistance recipient, and a guardian of a public assistance recipient in an adjudication case for permission for admission to a facility, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 家庭裁判所は、施設への入所等についての許可の申立てについての審判をする場合には、申立てが不適法であるとき又は申立てに理由がないことが明らかなときを除き、被保護者（十五歳以上のものに限る。）、被保護者に対し親権を行う者及び被保護者の後見人の陳述を聴かなければならない。 art-240/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24#art-240/par-4 When making a ruling on a petition for permission for admission to a facility, etc., the family court must hear statements from a public assistance recipient (limited to a person of 15 years of age or older), a person who exercises parental authority over a public assistance recipient and a guardian of a public assistance recipient, except when the petition is unlawful or the petition is clearly groundless. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When making a ruling on a petition for permission for admission to a facility, etc., the family court must hear statements from a public assistance recipient (limited to a child of 15 years of age or older), a person who exercises parental authority over a public assistance recipient and a guardian of a public assistance recipient, except when the petition is unlawful or the petition is clearly groundless." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第五項** 施設への入所等についての許可の審判は、第七十四条第一項に規定する者のほか、被保護者に対し親権を行う者及び被保護者の後見人に告知しなければならない。 art-240/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24#art-240/par-5 Notice of a ruling of permission for admission to a facility, etc. must be given to a person who exercises parental authority over a public assistance recipient and a guardian of a public assistance recipient, beyond the persons prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 次の各号に掲げる審判に対しては、当該各号に定める者は、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-240/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24#art-240/par-6 An immediate appeal may be filed against the rulings set forth in the following items by the persons specified respectively in these items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 施設への入所等についての許可の審判　被保護者に対し親権を行う者及び被保護者の後見人 art-240/par-6/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24#art-240/par-6/item-1 a ruling of permission for admission to a facility:a person who exercises parental authority over a public assistance recipient and a guardian of a public assistance recipient; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 施設への入所等についての許可の申立てを却下する審判　申立人 art-240/par-6/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24#art-240/par-6/item-2 a ruling to dismiss a petition for permission for admission to a facility:the petitioner; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 扶養義務者の負担すべき費用額の確定の審判及びその申立てを却下する審判　申立人及び相手方 art-240/par-6/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24#art-240/par-6/item-3 a ruling of the determination of the amount of expenses to be borne by a person under a duty to support, and a ruling to dismiss the petition:the petitioner and the respondent. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-240/par-1: 別表第一 → 家事事件手続法 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/appdx-1 - art-240/par-1: 第三項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百四十条第三項 (Article 240, paragraph (3)), art-240/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-24#art-240/par-3 - art-240/par-3: 第百十八条 → 家事事件手続法 第百十八条 (Article 118), art-118 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-1/from-art-117#art-118 - art-240/par-5: 第七十四条第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第七十四条第一項 (Article 74, paragraph (1)), art-74/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-1/from-art-59#art-74/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 家事事件手続法 — the text as 令和五年法律第五十三号 leaves it, from a date not yet fixed (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/423AC0000000052/20280613_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act (家事事件手続法), Article 240, paragraph (4) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act (家事事件手続法), Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 24 — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05