# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百六十九条 (Article 169) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169. 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: 第百六十九条 (Article 169)（陳述の聴取） — address `art-169` - 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-169 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169 - 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. --- ### 第百六十九条（陳述の聴取） — (Hearing Statements) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-169 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、次の各号に掲げる審判をする場合には、当該各号に定める者（第一号、第二号及び第四号にあっては、申立人を除く。）の陳述を聴かなければならない。この場合において、第一号に掲げる子の親権者の陳述の聴取は、審問の期日においてしなければならない。 art-169/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169/par-1 When making the rulings set forth in the following items, the family court must hear statements from the persons specified respectively in these items (in items (i), (ii), and (iv), excluding the petitioner). In this case, it must hear statements from the person who has parental authority over the child set forth in item (i) on a hearing date: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 親権喪失、親権停止又は管理権喪失の審判　子（十五歳以上のものに限る。）及び子の親権者 art-169/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169/par-1/item-1 a ruling of the loss of parental authority, suspension of parental authority, or loss of right to manage assets:the child (limited to a child of 15 years of age or older), and the person who has parental authority over the child; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 親権喪失、親権停止又は管理権喪失の審判の取消しの審判　子（十五歳以上のものに限る。）、子に対し親権を行う者、子の未成年後見人及び親権を喪失し、若しくは停止され、又は管理権を喪失した者 art-169/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169/par-1/item-2 a ruling to revoke a ruling of the loss of parental authority, suspension of parental authority, or loss of right to manage assets:the child (limited to a child of 15 years of age or older), the person who exercises parental authority over the child, a guardian of the minor of the child, and a person who has lost parental authority, is subject to the suspension of parental authority, or has lost the right to manage assets; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "a ruling to revoke a ruling of the loss of parental authority, suspension of parental authority, or loss of right to manage assets:the child (limited to a child of 15 years of age or older), the parental authority over the child, a guardian of the minor of the child, and a person who has lost of parental authority, is subject to the suspension of parental authority, or has lost of the right to manage assets;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **三** 親権又は管理権を辞するについての許可の審判　子（十五歳以上のものに限る。） art-169/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169/par-1/item-3 a ruling of permission for the surrender of parental authority or right to manage assets:the child (limited to a child of 15 years of age or older); and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 親権又は管理権を回復するについての許可の審判　子（十五歳以上のものに限る。）、子に対し親権を行う者及び子の未成年後見人 art-169/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169/par-1/item-4 a ruling of permission for the resumption of parental authority or right to manage assets:the child (limited to a child of 15 years of age or older), the person who exercises parental authority over the child, and a guardian of a minor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、親権者の指定若しくは変更又は親権行使者の指定の審判をする場合には、第六十八条の規定により当事者の陳述を聴くほか、子（十五歳以上のものに限る。）の陳述を聴かなければならない。 art-169/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169/par-2 When making a ruling of the designation or change of a person who has parental authority or the designation of a person exercising parental authority alone, the family court must hear statements from the child (limited to a child of 15 years of age or older), in addition to hearing statements from a party pursuant to the provisions of Article 68. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-169/par-1: 第一号 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十九条第一項第一号 (Article 169, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-169/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169/par-1/item-1 - art-169/par-1: 第二号 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十九条第一項第二号 (Article 169, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-169/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169/par-1/item-2 - art-169/par-1: 第四号 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十九条第一項第四号 (Article 169, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-169/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169/par-1/item-4 - art-169/par-2: 第六十八条 → 家事事件手続法 第六十八条 (Article 68), art-68 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-68 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第百六十九条第一項（陳述の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169/par-1 - 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 169, paragraph (1), item (ii) — 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-20261105T164326-004, 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