# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百三十二条 (Article 232) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-232. 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: 第二百三十二条 (Article 232) — address `art-232` - 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-232 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-232 - 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. --- ### 第二百三十二条 art-232 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-232 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-232 **第一項** 性別の取扱いの変更の審判事件（別表第一の百二十六の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。次項において同じ。）は、申立人の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-232/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-232/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-232/par-1 An adjudication case for a change in the handling of gender (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (126); the same applies in the following paragraph) is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of the petitioner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百十八条の規定は、性別の取扱いの変更の審判事件における申立人について準用する。 art-232/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-232/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-232/par-2 The provisions of Article 118 apply mutatis mutandis to a petitioner in an adjudication case for the change in handling of gender. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of Article 118 applies mutatis mutandis to a petitioner in an adjudication case for the change in handling of gender." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第三項** 性別の取扱いの変更の申立てをした者は、その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-232/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-232/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-232/par-3 A person who has filed a petition for a change in the handling of gender may file an immediate appeal against a ruling to dismiss the petition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-232/par-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 - art-232/par-1: 次項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百三十二条第二項 (Article 232, paragraph (2)), art-232/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-232/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-232/par-2 - art-232/par-2: 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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百三十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-232/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-232/par-1 --- ## 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 232, paragraph (2) — 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