# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百六十三条 (Article 263) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-263. 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: 第二百六十三条 (Article 263)（意見の聴取の嘱託） — address `art-263` - 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-263 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-263 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十三条（意見の聴取の嘱託） — (Commissioning of Hearing Opinions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-263 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-263 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-263 **第一項** 調停委員会は、他の家庭裁判所又は簡易裁判所に事件の関係人から紛争の解決に関する意見を聴取することを嘱託することができる。 art-263/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-263/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-263/par-1 A mediation committee may commission another family court or a summary court to hear the opinion of a party concerned with a case with regard to the resolution of a dispute. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A conciliation committee may commission another family court or a summary court to hear the opinion of a party concerned with a case with regard to the resolution of a dispute." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第二項** 前項の規定により意見の聴取の嘱託を受けた家庭裁判所は、相当と認めるときは、家事調停委員に当該嘱託に係る意見を聴取させることができる。 art-263/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-263/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-263/par-2 A family court that is commissioned to hear opinions under the provisions of the preceding paragraph may, when it finds it to be appropriate, have a domestic relations mediation commissioner hear opinions as commissioned. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A family court that is commissioned to hear opinions under the provisions of the preceding paragraph may, when it finds it to be appropriate, have a domestic relations conciliation commissioner hear opinions as commissioned." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Cites - art-263/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百六十三条第一項 (Article 263, paragraph (1)), art-263/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-263/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-263/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百六十三条第二項（意見の聴取の嘱託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-263/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-263/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第二百六十七条第二項（裁判官のみで行う家事調停の手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-267/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-267/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 263, 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 263, 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