# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-23. 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23)（裁判長による手続代理人の選任等） — address `art-23` - 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-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（裁判長による手続代理人の選任等） — (Appointment of Counsel by Presiding Judges) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-23 **第一項** 手続行為につき行為能力の制限を受けた者が第百十八条（この法律の他の規定において準用する場合を含む。）又は第二百五十二条第一項の規定により手続行為をしようとする場合において、必要があると認めるときは、裁判長は、申立てにより、弁護士を手続代理人に選任することができる。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-23/par-1 When a person, whose capacity to participate in proceedings has been limited, intends to participate in proceedings pursuant to the provisions of Article 118 (including the cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to other provisions of this Act) or Article 252, paragraph (1), the presiding judge may, upon petition, appoint an attorney as the person's counsel when the presiding judge finds it to be necessary. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a person, whose ability to participate in proceedings has been limited, intends to participate in proceedings pursuant to the provisions of Article 118 (including the cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to other provisions of this Act) or Article 252, paragraph (1), the presiding judge may, upon petition, appoint an attorney as the person's counsel when the presiding judge finds it to be necessary." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第二項** 手続行為につき行為能力の制限を受けた者が前項の申立てをしない場合においても、裁判長は、弁護士を手続代理人に選任すべき旨を命じ、又は職権で弁護士を手続代理人に選任することができる。 art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-23/par-2 Also when a person, whose capacity to participate in proceedings has been limited, does not file the petition set forth in the preceding paragraph, the presiding judge may order that an attorney be appointed as the person's counsel or appoint an attorney as the person's counsel by the presiding judge's own authority. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定により裁判長が手続代理人に選任した弁護士に対し手続行為につき行為能力の制限を受けた者が支払うべき報酬の額は、裁判所が相当と認める額とする。 art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-23/par-3 The amount of remuneration to be paid by a person, whose capacity to participate in proceedings has been limited, to the attorney appointed as the person's counsel by the presiding judge pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs is to be such an amount as considered reasonable by the court. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The amount of remuneration to be paid by a person, whose ability to participate in proceedings has been limited, to the attorney appointed as the person's counsel by the presiding judge pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs is to be such an amount as considered reasonable by the court." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Cites - art-23/par-1: 第百十八条 → 家事事件手続法 第百十八条 (Article 118), art-118 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-118 - art-23/par-1: 第二百五十二条第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百五十二条第一項 (Article 252, paragraph (1)), art-252/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-252/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-252/par-1 - art-23/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第二十三条第一項 (Article 23, paragraph (1)), art-23/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-23/par-1 - art-23/par-3: 前二項 → 家事事件手続法 第二十三条第一項 (Article 23, paragraph (1)), art-23/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-23/par-1 - art-23/par-3: 前二項 → 家事事件手続法 第二十三条第二項 (Article 23, paragraph (2)), art-23/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-23/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二十三条第二項（裁判長による手続代理人の選任等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-23/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第二十三条第三項（裁判長による手続代理人の選任等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-23/par-3 - 家事事件手続法 第二百六十条第二項（調停委員会等の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-260/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-260/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 23, 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 (家事事件手続法), Article 23, paragraph (3) — 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