# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第五編 (Part 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-5. 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: 第五編 (Part 5) — address `pt-5` - 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-5 - The same address in the text in force (its wording there may differ): https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/pt-5 - 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. --- ## 第五編　罰則 — Part V Penal Provisions heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System pt-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-5 ### 第二百九十一条（過料の裁判の執行等） — (Execution of Judicial Decisions of Non-Criminal Fines) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-291 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-5#art-291 **第一項** この法律の規定による過料の裁判は、裁判官の命令で執行する。この命令は、執行力のある債務名義と同一の効力を有する。 art-291/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-5#art-291/par-1 A judicial decision of a non-criminal fine under the provisions of this Act is executed based on a direction issued by a judge. The direction has the same effect as an enforceable title of obligation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** この法律に規定するもののほか、過料についての裁判に関しては、非訟事件手続法（平成二十三年法律第五十一号）第五編の規定（同法第百十九条並びに第百二十一条第一項及び第三項の規定並びに同法第百二十条及び第百二十二条の規定中検察官に関する部分を除く。）並びに刑事訴訟法（昭和二十三年法律第百三十一号）第五百八条第一項本文及び第二項並びに第五百十四条の規定を準用する。 art-291/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-5#art-291/par-2 Beyond what is provided for in this Act, the provisions of Part V of the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act (Act No. 51 of 2011) (excluding the provisions of Article 119, and Article 121, paragraphs (1) and (3) of that Act, and the parts of the provisions of Article 120 and Article 122 of that Act concerning a public prosecutor), and the provisions of Article 508, paragraph (1), the main clause, and paragraph (2) and Article 514 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Act No. 131 of 1948) apply mutatis mutandis to a judicial decision of a non-criminal fine. machine translation, not official ### 第二百九十二条（人の秘密を漏らす罪） — (Crime of Divulging Personal Confidential Information) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-292 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-5#art-292 **第一項** 参与員、家事調停委員又はこれらの職にあった者が正当な理由なくその職務上取り扱ったことについて知り得た人の秘密を漏らしたときは、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-292/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-5#art-292/par-1 If a counselor, a domestic relations mediation commissioner, or a person who has held either post divulges any personal confidential information made available to the person in the course of the person's duties without justifiable grounds, the person is punished by imprisonment for up to one year or a fine of up to 500,000 yen. machine translation, not official ### 第二百九十三条（評議の秘密を漏らす罪） — (Crime of Divulging Confidential Information on Proceedings of Deliberations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-293 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-5#art-293 **第一項** 家事調停委員又は家事調停委員であった者が正当な理由なく評議の経過又は裁判官、家事調停官若しくは家事調停委員の意見若しくはその多少の数を漏らしたときは、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。参与員又は参与員であった者が正当な理由なく裁判官又は参与員の意見を漏らしたときも、同様とする。 art-293/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-5#art-293/par-1 If a domestic relations mediation commissioner or a person who has been a domestic relations mediation commissioner, without justifiable grounds, divulges any matters with respect to the proceedings of the deliberations of the committee, or the opinions of a judge, domestic relations mediator or domestic relations mediation commissioner or the number of opinions constituting the majority and the minority, the person is punished by a fine of up to 300,000 yen. The same applies when a counselor or a person who has been a counselor, without justifiable grounds, divulges the opinions of a judge or counselor. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a domestic relations conciliation commissioner or a person who has been a domestic relations conciliation commissioner, without justifiable grounds, divulges any matters with respect to the proceedings of the deliberations of the committee, or the opinions of a judge, domestic relations conciliator or domestic relations conciliation commissioner or the number of opinions constituting the majority and the minority, the person is punished by a fine of up to 300,000 yen. The same applies when a counselor or a person who has been a counselor, without justifiable grounds, divulges the opinions of a judge or counselor." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Cites - art-291/par-2: 同法第百十九条 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000051, 第百十九条 (Article 119), art-119 — not held in this collection - art-291/par-2: 第百二十一条第一項 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000051, 第百二十一条第一項 (Article 121, paragraph (1)), art-121/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-291/par-2: 第三項 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000051, 第百二十一条第三項 (Article 121, paragraph (3)), art-121/par-3 — not held in this collection - art-291/par-2: 同法第百二十条 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000051, 第百二十条 (Article 120), art-120 — not held in this collection - art-291/par-2: 第百二十二条 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000051, 第百二十二条 (Article 122), art-122 — not held in this collection - art-291/par-2: 刑事訴訟法（昭和二十三年法律第百三十一号）第五百八条第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第五百八条第一項 (Article 508, paragraph (1)), art-508/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-291/par-2: 第二項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第五百八条第二項 (Article 508, paragraph (2)), art-508/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-291/par-2: 第五百十四条 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000131, 第五百十四条 (Article 514), art-514 — not held in this collection --- ## 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 293, paragraph (1) — 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch domestic-relations-case-procedure-act-20261105T164326-005, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05