# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二十五節 (Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 25) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-25. 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: 第二十五節 (Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 25) — address `pt-2/ch-2/sec-25` - 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-25 - 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-25 - 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. --- ## 第二十五節　心神喪失等の状態で重大な他害行為を行った者の医療及び観察等に関する法律に規定する審判事件 — Section 25 Adjudication Cases Prescribed in the Act on Medical Care and Treatment for Persons Who Have Caused Serious Cases Under the Condition of Insanity heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System pt-2/ch-2/sec-25 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-25 ### 第二百四十一条 art-241 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-25#art-241 **第一項** 保護者の順位の変更及び保護者の選任の審判事件（別表第一の百三十の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。第四項において同じ。）は、心神喪失等の状態で重大な他害行為を行った者の医療及び観察等に関する法律第二条第二項に規定する対象者の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-241/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-25#art-241/par-1 An adjudication case for a change in the order among persons to serve as custodians and for the appointment of a custodian (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (130); the same applies in paragraph (4)) is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of the subject prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Medical Care and Treatment for Persons Who Have Caused Serious Cases Under the Condition of Insanity. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、次の各号に掲げる審判をする場合には、当該各号に定める者（申立人を除く。）の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-241/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-25#art-241/par-2 When making the rulings set forth in the following items, the family court must hear the opinions of the persons specified respectively in these items (excluding the petitioner): Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "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):" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **一** 保護者の順位の変更の審判　先順位に変更される者 art-241/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-25#art-241/par-2/item-1 a ruling of the change in the order among persons to serve as custodians:a person who is to be moved to a higher rank; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 保護者の選任の審判　保護者となるべき者 art-241/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-25#art-241/par-2/item-2 a ruling of the appointment of a custodian:a person who is to be a custodian. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 保護者の順位の変更又は保護者の選任の申立てをした者は、その申立てを却下する審判に対し、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-241/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-25#art-241/par-3 A person who has filed a petition for the change in the order among persons to serve as custodians or the appointment of a custodian may file an immediate appeal against a ruling to dismiss the petition. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A person who has filed a petition for the change in the order among persons to serve as custodians or the appointment of a custodian: a person who is to be a custodian may file an immediate appeal against a ruling to dismiss the petition." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第四項** 家庭裁判所は、いつでも、保護者の順位の変更及び保護者の選任の審判事件において選任した保護者を改任することができる。 art-241/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-25#art-241/par-4 A family court may, at any time, replace a person appointed in an adjudication case for the change in the order among persons to serve as custodians or for the appointment of a custodian, with another. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-241/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-241/par-1: 第四項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百四十一条第四項 (Article 241, paragraph (4)), art-241/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-25#art-241/par-4 --- ## 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 241, paragraph (2) — 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), Article 241, paragraph (3) — 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