# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二十七条 (Article 27) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-27. 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: 第二十七条 (Article 27)（補佐人） — address `art-27` - 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-27 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-27 - 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. --- ### 第二十七条（補佐人） — (Assistants in Court) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-27 **第一項** 家事事件の手続における補佐人については、民事訴訟法第六十条の規定を準用する。 art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-27/par-1 The provisions of Article 60 of the Code of Civil Procedure apply mutatis mutandis to an assistant in court in the proceedings of domestic relations cases. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-27/par-1: 民事訴訟法第六十条 → 民事訴訟法 第六十条 (Article 60), art-60 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-60 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百六十条第一項第二号（調停委員会等の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-260/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-260/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05