# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百十七条 (Article 117) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-117. 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: 第百十七条 (Article 117)（管轄） — address `art-117` - 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-117 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-117 - 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. --- ### 第百十七条（管轄） — (Jurisdiction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-117 **第一項** 後見開始の審判事件（別表第一の一の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。次項及び次条第一号において同じ。）は、成年被後見人となるべき者の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-117/par-1 An adjudication case for the commencement of guardianship (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (1); the same applies in the following paragraph and item (i) of the following Article) is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a person who is to be an adult under guardianship. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 成年後見に関する審判事件（別表第一の一の項から十六の二の項までの事項についての審判事件をいう。）は、後見開始の審判事件を除き、後見開始の審判をした家庭裁判所（抗告裁判所が後見開始の裁判をした場合にあっては、その第一審裁判所である家庭裁判所）の管轄に属する。ただし、後見開始の審判事件が家庭裁判所に係属しているときは、その家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-117/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-117/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-117/par-2 Adjudication cases regarding the guardianship of an adult (meaning the adjudication cases regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, rows (1) through (16)-2), except for an adjudication case for the commencement of guardianship, are subject to the jurisdiction of a family court that has made a ruling of the commencement of guardianship (if the court in charge of an appeal has made a judicial decision of the commencement of guardianship, the family court that is the court of first instance); provided, however, that if an adjudication case for the commencement of guardianship is pending before a family court, these cases are subject to the jurisdiction of that family court. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Adjudication cases regarding the guardianship of an adult (meaning the adjudication cases regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, rows (1) through (16)-2), except for an adjudication case for the commencement of guardianship, is subject to the jurisdiction of a family court that has made a ruling of the commencement of guardianship (if the court in charge of an appeal has made a judicial decision of the commencement of guardianship, the family court that is the court of first instance); provided, however, that if an adjudication case for the commencement of guardianship is pending before a family court, these cases are subject to that family court." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Cites - art-117/par-1: 次項 → 家事事件手続法 第百十七条第二項 (Article 117, paragraph (2)), art-117/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-117/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-117/par-2 - art-117/par-1: 次条第一号 → 家事事件手続法 第百十八条第一項第一号 (Article 118, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-118/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-118/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-118/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第百十七条第一項（管轄） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-117/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 117, 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