# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百三十五条 (Article 235) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-235. 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: 第二百三十五条 (Article 235)（手続行為能力） — address `art-235` - 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-235 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-235 - 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. --- ### 第二百三十五条（手続行為能力） — (Capacity to Participate in Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-235 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-235 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-235 **第一項** 第百十八条の規定は、都道府県の措置についての承認の審判事件、都道府県の措置の期間の更新についての承認の審判事件及び児童相談所長又は都道府県知事の引き続いての一時保護についての承認の審判事件における児童を現に監護する者、児童に対し親権を行う者、児童の未成年後見人及び児童並びに児童相談所長の申立てによる特別養子適格の確認の審判事件における児童及びその父母について準用する。 art-235/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-235/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-235/par-1 The provisions of Article 118 apply mutatis mutandis to a person who actually cares for a child, a person who exercises parental authority over a child, a guardian of a minor, and a child in an adjudication case for the approval of a measure taken by a prefecture, an adjudication case for the approval of a renewal of the period for a measure taken by a prefecture, and an adjudication case for the approval of continued temporary custody by a child guidance center's director or prefectural governor, and to a child and the parents in an adjudication case for confirmation of eligibility for a special adoption upon petition by the director of a child guidance center. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-235/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 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百三十四条第一項（管轄） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-234/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-234/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第二百三十六条第一項（陳述及び意見の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-236/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-236/par-1 --- ## 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