# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-19. 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（特別代理人） — address `art-19` - 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-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（特別代理人） — (Special Representatives) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-19 **第一項** 裁判長は、未成年者又は成年被後見人について、法定代理人がない場合又は法定代理人が代理権を行うことができない場合において、家事事件の手続が遅滞することにより損害が生ずるおそれがあるときは、利害関係人の申立てにより又は職権で、特別代理人を選任することができる。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-19/par-1 When a minor or adult under guardianship has no legal representative or the legal representative of the minor or adult under guardianship is unable to exercise their authority of representation, and when this is likely to delay the proceedings of a domestic relations case and thereby cause damage, the presiding judge may appoint a special representative upon the petition of an interested party or by its own authority. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a minor or adult under guardianship has no legal representative or the legal representative of the minor or adult under guardianship is unable to exercise their authority of representation, and when this is likely to delay the proceedings of a domestic relations case and thereby cause damage, the presiding judge may appoint a special representative upon the petition of an interested party or ." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第二項** 特別代理人の選任の裁判は、疎明に基づいてする。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-19/par-2 A judicial decision of the appointment of a special representative is made based on a prima facie showing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 裁判所は、いつでも特別代理人を改任することができる。 art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-19/par-3 The court may replace a special representative with another at any time. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 特別代理人が手続行為をするには、後見人と同一の授権がなければならない。 art-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-19/par-4 In order to participate in proceedings, a special representative must have the same powers as a guardian delegated to the special representative. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第一項の申立てを却下する裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-19/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-19/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-19/par-5 An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision to dismiss the petition set forth in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-19/par-5: 第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-19/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第十九条第五項（特別代理人） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-19/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-19/par-5 --- ## 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 19, 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