# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第十条 (Article 10) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10. 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: 第十条 (Article 10)（裁判官の除斥） — address `art-10` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十条（裁判官の除斥） — (Disqualification of Judges) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10 **第一項** 裁判官は、次に掲げる場合には、その職務の執行から除斥される。ただし、第六号に掲げる場合にあっては、他の裁判所の嘱託により受託裁判官としてその職務を行うことを妨げない。 art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-1 In the following cases, a judge is disqualified from fulfilling the judge's duties; provided, however, that in the case set forth in item (vi), this does not preclude a judge from fulfilling the judge's duties as a commissioned judge based on a commission from another court: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 裁判官又はその配偶者若しくは配偶者であった者が、事件の当事者若しくはその他の審判を受ける者となるべき者（審判（申立てを却下する審判を除く。）がされた場合において、その審判を受ける者となる者をいう。以下同じ。）であるとき、又は事件についてこれらの者と共同権利者、共同義務者若しくは償還義務者の関係にあるとき。 art-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-1/item-1 where a judge or the judge's spouse or a person who was the judge's spouse is a party to the case or any other person who is to be subject to adjudication (meaning a person who is to be subject to adjudication when a ruling is made (excluding a ruling to dismiss a petition); the same applies hereinafter), or is related to such party or person in relation to the case as a joint obligee, joint obligor, or obligor for redemption; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "where a judge or the judge's spouse or a person who was the judge's spouse is a party to the case or any other person who is to be subject to adjudication (meaning a person who is to be subject to adjudication when a ruling is made (excluding a ruling to dismiss a petition); the same apply hereinafter), or is related to such party or person in relation to the case as a joint obligee, joint obligor, or obligor for redemtion;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **二** 裁判官が当事者又はその他の審判を受ける者となるべき者の四親等内の血族、三親等内の姻族若しくは同居の親族であるとき、又はあったとき。 art-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-1/item-2 when a judge is or was a blood relative within the fourth degree or relative by marriage within the third degree of, or relative living together with, a party to the case or any other person who is to be subject to adjudication; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 裁判官が当事者又はその他の審判を受ける者となるべき者の後見人、後見監督人、保佐人、保佐監督人、補助人又は補助監督人であるとき。 art-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-1/item-3 when a judge is a guardian, supervisor of a guardian, curator, supervisor of a curator, assistant, or supervisor of an assistant for a party to the case or any other person who is to be subject to adjudication; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 裁判官が事件について証人若しくは鑑定人となったとき、又は審問を受けることとなったとき。 art-10/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-1/item-4 when a judge has served as a witness or appraiser or is to be heard in relation to the case; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 裁判官が事件について当事者若しくはその他の審判を受ける者となるべき者の代理人若しくは補佐人であるとき、又はあったとき。 art-10/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-1/item-5 when a judge is or has been a representative or assistant in court of a party to the case or any other person who is to be subject to adjudication; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六** 裁判官が事件について仲裁判断に関与し、又は不服を申し立てられた前審の裁判に関与したとき。 art-10/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-1/item-6 when a judge has participated in making an arbitral award in relation to the case or participated in making a judicial decision in the prior instance against which an appeal has been entered. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する除斥の原因があるときは、裁判所は、申立てにより又は職権で、除斥の裁判をする。 art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-2 If any of the grounds for disqualification prescribed in the preceding paragraph exist, the court makes a judicial decision of disqualification upon petition or by its own authority. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If any of the grounds for disqualification prescribed in the preceding paragraph exist, the court make a judicial decision of disqualification upon petition or by its own authority." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Cites - art-10/par-1: 第六号 → 家事事件手続法 第十条第一項第六号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-10/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-1/item-6 - art-10/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第十条第一項（裁判官の除斥） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第十条第二項（裁判官の除斥） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第十三条第一項（裁判所書記官の除斥及び忌避） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-13/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第十四条第一項（参与員の除斥及び忌避） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-14/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第十五条第一項（家事調停官の除斥及び忌避） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-15/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第十六条第一項（家庭裁判所調査官及び家事調停委員の除斥） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-16/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第三十八条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-38-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-38-2/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 in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/423AC0000000052/20260624_508AC0000000045), 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 10, paragraph (1), item (i) — 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 10, 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 — 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