# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第十四条 (Article 14) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-14. 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: 第十四条 (Article 14)（参与員の除斥及び忌避） — address `art-14` - 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-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-14 - 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. --- ### 第十四条（参与員の除斥及び忌避） — (Disqualification of and Challenge to Counselor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-14 **第一項** 参与員の除斥及び忌避については、第十条、第十一条並びに第十二条第二項、第八項及び第九項の規定を準用する。 art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-14/par-1 With regard to disqualification and a challenge to a counselor, the provisions of Article 10, Article 11, and Article 12, paragraphs (2), (8), and (9) apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "With regard to disqualification and a challenge to a counselor, the provisions of Article 10, Article 11, and Article 12, paragraphs (2), (8), and (9) applies mutatis mutandis." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第二項** 参与員について除斥又は忌避の申立てがあったときは、その参与員は、その申立てについての裁判が確定するまでその申立てがあった家事事件に関与することができない。ただし、第十二条第五項各号に掲げる事由があるとして忌避の申立てを却下する裁判があったときは、この限りでない。 art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-14/par-2 When a motion for disqualification or challenge to a counselor is filed, the counselor may not participate in the domestic relations case in which the motion is filed until a judicial decision on the motion becomes final and binding; provided, however, that this does not apply if the motion for a challenge is denied on any of the grounds set forth in the items of Article 12, paragraph (5). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a motion for disqualification or challenge to a counselor is filed, the counselor may not participate in the domestic relations case in which the motion is filed until the case becomes final and binding; provided, however, that this does not apply if the motion for a challenge is denied on any of the grounds set forth in the items of Article 12, paragraph (5)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第三項** 参与員の除斥又は忌避についての裁判は、参与員の所属する家庭裁判所がする。ただし、前項ただし書の裁判は、受命裁判官（受命裁判官の手続に立ち会う参与員が忌避の申立てを受けたときに限る。）又は家事事件を取り扱う家庭裁判所の一人の裁判官がすることができる。 art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-14/par-3 A judicial decision of disqualification or a challenge to a counselor is to be made by the family court to which the counselor belongs:provided, however, that the judicial decision set forth in the proviso to the preceding paragraph may be made by an authorized judge (an authorized judge may make such a decision only when a motion for recusal is filed with regard to a counselor who is to attend the proceedings handled by the judge) or by a judge of a family court handling a domestic relations case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-14/par-1: 第十条 → 家事事件手続法 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10 - art-14/par-1: 第十一条 → 家事事件手続法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-11 - art-14/par-1: 第十二条第二項 → 家事事件手続法 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-12/par-2 - art-14/par-1: 第八項 → 家事事件手続法 第十二条第八項 (Article 12, paragraph (8)), art-12/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-12/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-12/par-8 - art-14/par-1: 第九項 → 家事事件手続法 第十二条第九項 (Article 12, paragraph (9)), art-12/par-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-12/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-12/par-9 - art-14/par-2: 第十二条第五項 → 家事事件手続法 第十二条第五項 (Article 12, paragraph (5)), art-12/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-12/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-12/par-5 - art-14/par-3: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第十四条第二項 (Article 14, paragraph (2)), art-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-14/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第十四条第三項（参与員の除斥及び忌避） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-14/par-3 --- ## 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 14, 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 (家事事件手続法), Article 14, 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