# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百七条 (Article 207) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-207. 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: 第二百七条 (Article 207)（相続財産の換価を命ずる裁判） — address `art-207` - 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-207 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-207 - 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. --- ### 第二百七条（相続財産の換価を命ずる裁判） — (Judicial Decisions to Order the Conversion of an Estate into Cash) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-207 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-207 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-207 **第一項** 第百九十四条第一項、第二項本文、第三項から第五項まで及び第七項の規定は、特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与の審判事件について準用する。この場合において、同条第一項及び第七項中「相続人」とあり、並びに同条第二項中「相続人の意見を聴き、相続人」とあるのは「相続財産の清算人」と、同条第三項中「相続人」とあるのは「特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与の申立人若しくは相続財産の清算人」と、同条第四項中「当事者」とあるのは「申立人」と、同条第五項中「相続人」とあるのは「特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与の申立人及び相続財産の清算人」と読み替えるものとする。 art-207/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-207/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-207/par-1 The provisions of Article 194, paragraph (1), the main clause of paragraph (2), paragraphs (3) through (5), and paragraph (7) apply mutatis mutandis to an adjudication case for the distribution of an estate to a person with a special connection. In this case, the term "heir" in paragraphs (1) and (7) of that Article and the phrase "hear the opinion of an heir and order the heir" in paragraph (2) of that Article are deemed to be replaced with "liquidator of the estate" and "order the liquidator of the estate" respectively; the term "heir" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "petitioner for the distribution of an estate to a person with a special connection or liquidator of the estate"; the term "the parties" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the petitioner"; and the term "heir" in paragraph (5) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "petitioner for the distribution of an estate to a person with a special connection and liquidator of the estate". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-207/par-1: 第百九十四条第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第百九十四条第一項 (Article 194, paragraph (1)), art-194/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-194/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-194/par-1 - art-207/par-1: 第二項 → 家事事件手続法 第百九十四条第二項 (Article 194, paragraph (2)), art-194/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-194/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-194/par-2 - art-207/par-1: 第三項から第五項まで → 家事事件手続法 第百九十四条第三項 (Article 194, paragraph (3)), art-194/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-194/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-194/par-3 - art-207/par-1: 第三項から第五項まで → 家事事件手続法 第百九十四条第四項 (Article 194, paragraph (4)), art-194/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-194/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-194/par-4 - art-207/par-1: 第三項から第五項まで → 家事事件手続法 第百九十四条第五項 (Article 194, paragraph (5)), art-194/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-194/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-194/par-5 - art-207/par-1: 第七項 → 家事事件手続法 第百九十四条第七項 (Article 194, paragraph (7)), art-194/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-194/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-194/par-7 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百三条第一項第三号（管轄） — 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 - 家事事件手続法 第二百五条第一項（意見の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-205/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-205/par-1 - 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