# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百三条 (Article 203) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-203. 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: 第二百三条 (Article 203)（管轄） — address `art-203` - 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-203 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-203 - 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. --- ### 第二百三条（管轄） — (Jurisdiction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-203 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-203 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-203 **第一項** 次の各号に掲げる審判事件は、当該各号に定める家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-203/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-203/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-203/par-1 The adjudication cases set forth in the following items are subject to the jurisdiction of the family courts specified respectively in these items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 相続人の不存在の場合における相続財産の清算に関する処分の審判事件　相続が開始した地を管轄する家庭裁判所 art-203/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-203/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-203/par-1/item-1 an adjudication case for a disposition regarding the liquidation of an estate in the event of the nonexistence of an heir:the family court which has jurisdiction over the place where an inheritance process has commenced; machine translation, not official **二** 相続人の不存在の場合における鑑定人の選任の審判事件（別表第一の百の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。）　相続人の不存在の場合における相続財産の清算に関する処分の審判事件において相続財産の清算人の選任の審判をした家庭裁判所 art-203/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-203/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-203/par-1/item-2 an adjudication case for the appointment of an appraiser in the event of nonexistence of an heir (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (100)):the family court that has made a ruling of the appointment of a liquidator of the estate in an adjudication case for a disposition regarding the liquidation of the estate in the event of nonexistence of an heir; and machine translation, not official **三** 特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与の審判事件（別表第一の百一の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。次条第二項及び第二百七条において同じ。）　相続が開始した地を管轄する家庭裁判所 art-203/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-203/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-203/par-1/item-3 an adjudication case for the distribution of an estate to a person with a special connection (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (101); the same applies in paragraph (2) of the following Article and Article 207):the family court which has jurisdiction over the place where an inheritance process has commenced. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-203/par-1/item-2: 別表第一 → 家事事件手続法 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/appdx-1 - art-203/par-1/item-3: 別表第一 → 家事事件手続法 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/appdx-1 - art-203/par-1/item-3: 次条第二項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百四条第二項 (Article 204, paragraph (2)), art-204/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-204/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-204/par-2 - art-203/par-1/item-3: 第二百七条 → 家事事件手続法 第二百七条 (Article 207), art-207 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-207 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-207 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch domestic-relations-case-procedure-act-20261105T162515-005, 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