# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百七十一条 (Article 271) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-271. 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: 第二百七十一条 (Article 271)（調停をしない場合の事件の終了） — address `art-271` - 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-271 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-271 - 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. --- ### 第二百七十一条（調停をしない場合の事件の終了） — (Closing of Cases Without Conducting Mediation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Closing of Cases Without Conducting Conciliation)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb art-271 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-271 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-271 **第一項** 調停委員会は、事件が性質上調停を行うのに適当でないと認めるとき、又は当事者が不当な目的でみだりに調停の申立てをしたと認めるときは、調停をしないものとして、家事調停事件を終了させることができる。 art-271/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-271/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-271/par-1 When a mediation committee finds that because of the nature of a case it is unsuitable for mediation, or finds that a party has filed a petition for mediation for an unjust purpose and without good reason, the mediation committee may close the case for mediation of domestic relations, deciding not to conduct a mediation. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a conciliation committee finds that because of the nature of a case it is unsuitable for conciliation, or finds that a party has filed a petition for conciliation for an unjust purpose and without good reason, the conciliation committee may close the case for conciliation of domestic relations, deciding not to conduct a conciliation." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百五十六条第一項（家事調停の申立書の写しの送付等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-256/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-256/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第二百七十条第一項（調停条項案の書面による受諾） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-270/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-270/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 271 — 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 271, 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