# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百六十二条 (Article 262) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-262. 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: 第二百六十二条 (Article 262)（家事調停委員による事実の調査） — address `art-262` - 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-262 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-262 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十二条（家事調停委員による事実の調査） — (Investigation of Facts by Domestic Relations Mediation Commissioner) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Investigation of Facts by Domestic Relations Conciliation Commissioner)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb art-262 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-262 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-262 **第一項** 調停委員会は、相当と認めるときは、当該調停委員会を組織する家事調停委員に事実の調査をさせることができる。ただし、家庭裁判所調査官に事実の調査をさせることを相当と認めるときは、この限りでない。 art-262/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-262/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-262/par-1 A mediation committee may, when it finds it to be appropriate, have a domestic relations mediation commissioner who composes the mediation committee investigate facts; provided, however, that this does not apply when it finds it to be appropriate to have a family court investigating officer examine the facts. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A conciliation committee may, when it finds it to be appropriate, have a domestic relations conciliation commissioner who composes the conciliation committee investigate facts; provided, however, that this does not apply when it finds it to be appropriate to have a family court investigating officer examine the facts." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## 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 262 — 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 262, 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