# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百八十八条 (Article 188) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188. 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: 第百八十八条 (Article 188)（推定相続人の廃除の審判事件及び推定相続人の廃除の取消しの審判事件） — address `art-188` - 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-188 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188 - 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. --- ### 第百八十八条（推定相続人の廃除の審判事件及び推定相続人の廃除の取消しの審判事件） — (Adjudication Cases for Disinheritance of Presumptive Heirs and Adjudication Cases for the Revocation of Disinheritance of Presumptive Heirs) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-188 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188 **第一項** 推定相続人の廃除の審判事件及び推定相続人の廃除の審判の取消しの審判事件は、被相続人の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。ただし、これらの審判事件が被相続人の死亡後に申し立てられた場合にあっては、相続が開始した地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-188/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188/par-1 An adjudication case for the disinheritance of a presumptive heir and an adjudication case for the revocation of a ruling of the disinheritance of a presumptive heir are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a decedent; provided, however, that if these cases are filed after the death of a decedent, they are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place where the inheritance process has commenced. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An adjudication case for the disinheritance of a presumptive heir and an adjudication case for the revocation of a ruling of the disinheritance of a presumptive heir are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a decedent; provided, however, that if these cases are filed after the death of a decedent, they are subject to the family court which has jurisdiction over the place where the inheritance process has commenced." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第二項** 第百十八条の規定は、前項に規定する審判事件における被相続人について準用する。 art-188/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188/par-2 The provisions of Article 118 apply mutatis mutandis to a decedent in the adjudication cases prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 家庭裁判所は、推定相続人の廃除の審判事件においては、申立てが不適法であるとき又は申立てに理由がないことが明らかなときを除き、廃除を求められた推定相続人の陳述を聴かなければならない。この場合における陳述の聴取は、審問の期日においてしなければならない。 art-188/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188/par-3 In an adjudication case for the disinheritance of a presumptive heir, the family court must hear statements from the presumptive heir for whom disinheritance is sought, except when the petition is unlawful or the petition is clearly groundless. In this case, it must hear statements from the presumptive heir on a hearing date. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 推定相続人の廃除の審判事件における手続については、申立人及び廃除を求められた推定相続人を当事者とみなして、第六十七条及び第六十九条から第七十二条までの規定を準用する。 art-188/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188/par-4 With regard to proceedings in an adjudication case for the disinheritance of a presumptive heir, the provisions of Articles 67 and 69 through 72 apply mutatis mutandis, while deeming the petitioner and the presumptive heir for whom disinheritance is sought to be the parties to the case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 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-188/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188/par-5 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** 推定相続人の廃除の審判　廃除された推定相続人 art-188/par-5/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188/par-5/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188/par-5/item-1 a ruling of the disinheritance of a presumptive heir:the disinherited presumptive heir; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 推定相続人の廃除又はその審判の取消しの申立てを却下する審判　申立人 art-188/par-5/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188/par-5/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188/par-5/item-2 a ruling to dismiss a petition for a ruling of the disinheritance of a presumptive heir or a petition for the revocation of the ruling:the petitioner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-188/par-2: 第百十八条 → 家事事件手続法 第百十八条 (Article 118), art-118 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-118 - art-188/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第百八十八条第一項 (Article 188, paragraph (1)), art-188/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188/par-1 - art-188/par-4: 第六十七条 → 家事事件手続法 第六十七条 (Article 67), art-67 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-67 - art-188/par-4: 第六十九条から第七十二条まで → 家事事件手続法 第六十九条 (Article 69), art-69 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-69 - art-188/par-4: 第六十九条から第七十二条まで → 家事事件手続法 第七十条 (Article 70), art-70 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-70 - art-188/par-4: 第六十九条から第七十二条まで → 家事事件手続法 第七十一条 (Article 71), art-71 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-71 - art-188/par-4: 第六十九条から第七十二条まで → 家事事件手続法 第七十二条 (Article 72), art-72 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-72 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第三条の十一第二項（相続に関する審判事件の管轄権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-11/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第五十条第一項（申立ての変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-50/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第百八十八条第二項（推定相続人の廃除の審判事件及び推定相続人の廃除の取消しの審判事件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188/par-2 --- ## 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 188, 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 — 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