# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百三条 (Article 103) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103. 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: 第百三条 (Article 103)（再審） — address `art-103` - 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-103 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103 - 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. 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. --- ### 第百三条（再審） — (Readjudications) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-103 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103 **第一項** 確定した審判その他の裁判（事件を完結するものに限る。第五項において同じ。）に対しては、再審の申立てをすることができる。 art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-1 A petition for readjudication may be taken from a ruling or any other judicial decision that has become final and binding (limited to such judicial decision that concludes a case; the same applies in paragraph (5)). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 再審の手続には、その性質に反しない限り、各審級における手続に関する規定を準用する。 art-103/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-2 With regard to proceedings for readjudication, unless they are contrary to the nature thereof, the provisions concerning proceedings in the respective instances apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 民事訴訟法第四編の規定（同法第三百四十一条及び第三百四十九条の規定を除く。）は、第一項の再審の申立て及びこれに関する手続について準用する。この場合において、同法第三百四十八条第一項中「不服申立ての限度で、本案の審理及び裁判をする」とあるのは、「本案の審理及び裁判をする」と読み替えるものとする。 art-103/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-3 The provisions of Part IV of the Code of Civil Procedure (excluding the provisions of Articles 341 and 349 of the Code) apply mutatis mutandis to the petition for readjudication set forth in paragraph (1) and the proceedings thereof. In this case, the phrase "conducts a trial and reaches a judicial decision on the merits, within the bounds of the party's protest" in Article 348, paragraph (1) of the Code is to be deemed to be replaced with "conducts proceedings and makes a judicial decision on the merits". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前項において準用する民事訴訟法第三百四十六条第一項の再審開始の決定に対する即時抗告は、執行停止の効力を有する。 art-103/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-4 The immediate appeal filed against an order of commencement of readjudication as set forth in Article 346, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph has the effect of a stay of execution. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The immediate appeal filed against a ruling of commencement of readjudication as set forth in Article 346, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph has the effect of a stay of execution." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第五項** 第三項において準用する民事訴訟法第三百四十八条第二項の規定により審判その他の裁判に対する再審の申立てを棄却する決定に対しては、当該審判その他の裁判に対し即時抗告をすることができる者に限り、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-103/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-5 An immediate appeal may be filed against an order to dismiss a petition for readjudication against a ruling or any other judicial decision pursuant to the provisions of Article 348, paragraph (2) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3), only by a person who may file an immediate appeal against the ruling or judicial decision. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-103/par-1: 第五項 → 家事事件手続法 第百三条第五項 (Article 103, paragraph (5)), art-103/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-5 - art-103/par-3: 同法第三百四十一条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百四十一条 (Article 341), art-341 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-341 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-341 - art-103/par-3: 第三百四十九条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百四十九条 (Article 349), art-349 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-349 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-349 - art-103/par-3: 第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第百三条第一項 (Article 103, paragraph (1)), art-103/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-1 - art-103/par-3: 同法第三百四十八条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百四十八条第一項 (Article 348, paragraph (1)), art-348/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-348/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-348/par-1 - art-103/par-4: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第百三条第三項 (Article 103, paragraph (3)), art-103/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-3 - art-103/par-4: 民事訴訟法第三百四十六条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百四十六条第一項 (Article 346, paragraph (1)), art-346/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-346/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-346/par-1 - art-103/par-5: 第三項 → 家事事件手続法 第百三条第三項 (Article 103, paragraph (3)), art-103/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-3 - art-103/par-5: 民事訴訟法第三百四十八条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百四十八条第二項 (Article 348, paragraph (2)), art-348/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-348/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-348/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第百三条第一項（再審） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第百三条第三項（再審） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-3 - 家事事件手続法 第百三条第四項（再審） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-4 - 家事事件手続法 第百三条第五項（再審） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-103/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-103/par-5 - 家事事件手続法 第百四条第一項（執行停止の裁判） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-104/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 103, 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 — 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