# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百十六条 (Article 216) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-216. 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: 第二百十六条 (Article 216) — address `art-216` - 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-216 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-216 - 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. --- ### 第二百十六条 art-216 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-216 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-216 **第一項** 次の各号に掲げる審判事件は、当該各号に定める地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-216/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-216/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-216/par-1 The adjudication cases set forth in the following items are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the places specified respectively in these items: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The adjudication cases set forth in the following items are subject to the family court which has jurisdiction over the places specified respectively in these items:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **一** 遺留分を算定するための財産の価額を定める場合における鑑定人の選任の審判事件（別表第一の百九の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。）　相続が開始した地 art-216/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-216/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-216/par-1/item-1 an adjudication case for the appointment of an appraiser upon the determination of the value of property for the calculation of an heir's legally reserved share (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (109)):the place where an inheritance process has commenced; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 遺留分の放棄についての許可の審判事件　被相続人の住所地 art-216/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-216/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-216/par-1/item-2 an adjudication case for permission for an heir's renunciation of the heir's legally reserved share:the place of domicile of a decedent. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 遺留分の放棄についての許可の申立てをした者は、申立てを却下する審判に対し、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-216/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-216/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-216/par-2 A person who has filed a petition for permission for an heir's renunciation of the heir's legally reserved share may file an immediate appeal against a ruling to dismiss the petition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-216/par-1/item-1: 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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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 --- ## 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 216, 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