# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百五条 (Article 205) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-205. 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: 第二百五条 (Article 205)（意見の聴取） — address `art-205` - 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-205 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-205 - 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. --- ### 第二百五条（意見の聴取） — (Hearings of Opinions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-205 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-205 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-205 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与の申立てについての審判をする場合には、民法第九百五十二条第一項の規定により選任し、又は第二百八条において準用する第百二十五条第一項の規定により改任した相続財産の清算人（次条及び第二百七条において単に「相続財産の清算人」という。）の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-205/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-205/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-205/par-1 When making a ruling on a petition for the distribution of an estate to a person with a special connection, the family court must hear the opinion of a liquidator of the estate appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article 952, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code or appointed as a replacement pursuant to the provisions of Article 125, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 208 (hereinafter simply referred to as a "liquidator of the estate" in the following Article and Article 207). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-205/par-1: 民法第九百五十二条第一項 → 民法 第九百五十二条第一項 (Article 952, paragraph (1)), art-952/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-952/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952/par-1 - art-205/par-1: 第二百八条 → 家事事件手続法 第二百八条 (Article 208), art-208 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-208 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-208 - art-205/par-1: 第百二十五条第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第百二十五条第一項 (Article 125, paragraph (1)), art-125/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-125/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-125/par-1 - art-205/par-1: 次条 → 家事事件手続法 第二百六条 (Article 206), art-206 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-206 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-206 - art-205/par-1: 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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 附則第七条第三項（家事事件手続法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/suppl-5031-24/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-5031-24/art-7/par-3 --- ## 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