# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百五十六条 (Article 156) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-156. 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: 第百五十六条 (Article 156)（即時抗告） — address `art-156` - 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-156 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-156 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条（即時抗告） — (Immediate Appeals) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-156 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-156 **第一項** 次の各号に掲げる審判に対しては、当該各号に定める者は、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-156/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-156/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-156/par-1 An immediate appeal may be filed against the rulings set forth in the following items by the persons specified respectively in these items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 夫婦間の協力扶助に関する処分の審判及びその申立てを却下する審判　夫及び妻 art-156/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-156/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-156/par-1/item-1 a ruling of a disposition regarding cooperation and mutual assistance between a husband and wife, and a ruling to dismiss a petition for the ruling:the husband and wife; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 夫婦財産契約による財産の管理者の変更等の審判及びその申立てを却下する審判　夫及び妻 art-156/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-156/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-156/par-1/item-2 a ruling of the change of an administrator of property, etc. under a prenuptial agreement, and a ruling to dismiss a petition for the ruling:the husband and wife; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 婚姻費用の分担に関する処分の審判及びその申立てを却下する審判　夫及び妻 art-156/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-156/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-156/par-1/item-3 a ruling of a disposition regarding the sharing of living expenses, and a ruling to dismiss a petition for the ruling:the husband and wife; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 子の監護に関する処分の審判及びその申立てを却下する審判　子の父母及び子の監護者 art-156/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-156/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-156/par-1/item-4 a ruling of a disposition regarding the custody of a child, and a ruling to dismiss a petition for the ruling:the parents of the child and the person who has custody of the child; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 財産の分与に関する処分の審判及びその申立てを却下する審判　夫又は妻であった者 art-156/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-156/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-156/par-1/item-5 a ruling of a disposition regarding the division of property, and a ruling to dismiss a petition for the ruling:the person who has been a husband or wife; and Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "a ruling of a disposition regarding the distribution of property, and a ruling to dismiss a petition for the ruling:the person who has been a husband or wife; and" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **六** 離婚等の場合における祭具等の所有権の承継者の指定の審判及びその申立てを却下する審判　婚姻の当事者（民法第七百五十一条第二項において準用する同法第七百六十九条第二項の規定による場合にあっては、生存配偶者）その他の利害関係人 art-156/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-156/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-156/par-1/item-6 a ruling of the designation of a successor to the ownership of equipment for rituals, etc. upon divorce, etc., and a ruling to dismiss a petition for the ruling:a party to the marriage (in the case set forth in the provisions of Article 769, paragraph (2) of the Civil Code as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 751, paragraph (2) of the Code, the surviving spouse), and any other interested party. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 子の監護に関する処分の審判（父母以外の親族と子との交流に関する処分の審判に限る。）及びその申立てを却下する審判に対する即時抗告は、民法第七百六十六条の二第二項（第二号に係る部分に限る。）の規定による請求をすることができる者及び同法第八百十七条の十三第五項の規定による請求をすることができる者もすることができる。 art-156/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-156/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-156/par-2 An immediate appeal against a ruling of a disposition regarding the custody of a child (limited to a ruling of a disposition regarding contact between a child and a relative other than a parent) and a ruling to dismiss a petition for that ruling may also be filed by a person who may make a request under the provisions of Article 766-2, paragraph (2) of the Civil Code (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii)) and a person who may make a request under the provisions of Article 817-13, paragraph (5) of the Code. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-156/par-1/item-6: 民法第七百五十一条第二項 → 民法 第七百五十一条第二項 (Article 751, paragraph (2)), art-751/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-751/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-751/par-2 - art-156/par-1/item-6: 同法第七百六十九条第二項 → 民法 第七百六十九条第二項 (Article 769, paragraph (2)), art-769/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-769/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-769/par-2 - art-156/par-2: 民法第七百六十六条の二第二項 → 民法 第七百六十六条の二第二項 (Article 766-2, paragraph (2)), art-766-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-766-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766-2/par-2 - art-156/par-2: 第二号 → 民法 第七百六十六条の二第二項第二号 (Article 766-2, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-766-2/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-766-2/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766-2/par-2/item-2 - art-156/par-2: 同法第八百十七条の十三第五項 → 民法 第八百十七条の十三第五項 (Article 817-13, paragraph (5)), art-817-13/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-13/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-13/par-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百四十二条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-242/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-242/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 156, paragraph (1), item (v) — 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-20261105T164326-003, 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