# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百七十六条 (Article 176) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-176. 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: 第百七十六条 (Article 176)（管轄） — address `art-176` - 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-176 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-176 - 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. --- ### 第百七十六条（管轄） — (Jurisdiction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-176 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-176 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-176 **第一項** 未成年後見に関する審判事件（別表第一の七十の項から八十三の項までの事項についての審判事件をいう。）は、未成年被後見人（養子の離縁後に未成年後見人となるべき者の選任の審判事件にあっては、未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-176/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-176/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-176/par-1 Adjudication cases regarding guardianship of a minor (meaning the adjudication cases regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, rows (70) through (83)) are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a minor ward (in an adjudication case for the appointment of a person who is to be a guardian of a minor after the dissolution of an adoptive relationship, a person who is to be a minor ward). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第三条の九第一項（養子の離縁後に未成年後見人となるべき者の選任の審判事件等の管轄権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-9/par-1 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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