# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28. 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（手続費用の負担） — address `art-28` - 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-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十八条（手続費用の負担） — (Burden of Procedural Costs) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28 **第一項** 手続費用（家事審判に関する手続の費用（以下「審判費用」という。）及び家事調停に関する手続の費用（以下「調停費用」という。）をいう。以下同じ。）は、各自の負担とする。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-1 With regard to procedural costs (meaning costs for proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations (hereinafter referred to as "adjudication costs") and costs for proceedings for mediation of domestic relations (hereinafter referred to as "mediation costs"); the same applies hereinafter), each person bears their own costs. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "With regard to procedural costs (meaning costs for proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations (hereinafter referred to as "adjudication costs") and costs for proceedings for conciliation of domestic relations (hereinafter referred to as "conciliation costs"); the same applies hereinafter), each person bears their own costs." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第二項** 裁判所は、事情により、前項の規定によれば当事者及び利害関係参加人（第四十二条第七項に規定する利害関係参加人をいう。第一号において同じ。）がそれぞれ負担すべき手続費用の全部又は一部を、その負担すべき者以外の者であって次に掲げるものに負担させることができる。 art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-2 Depending on the circumstances, the court may impose the whole or part of the procedural costs, which are to be borne by a party and by an interested party intervenor (meaning the interested party intervenor prescribed in Article 42, paragraph (7); the same applies in item (i)) under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, on a person other than the party or intervenor who is to bear the costs, as set forth in the following: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当事者又は利害関係参加人 art-28/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-2/item-1 another party or interested party intervenor; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 前号に掲げる者以外の審判を受ける者となるべき者 art-28/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-2/item-2 a person who is to be subject to adjudication, except for the person set forth in the preceding item; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前号に掲げる者に準ずる者であって、その裁判により直接に利益を受けるもの art-28/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-2/item-3 a person equivalent to the person set forth in the preceding item, who is to benefit directly from the judicial decision concerned. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定によれば検察官が負担すべき手続費用は、国庫の負担とする。 art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-3 Any procedural costs to be borne by a public prosecutor under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs are to be borne by the national treasury. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-28/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-1 - art-28/par-2: 第四十二条第七項 → 家事事件手続法 第四十二条第七項 (Article 42, paragraph (7)), art-42/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-42/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-42/par-7 - art-28/par-2: 第一号 → 家事事件手続法 第二十八条第二項第一号 (Article 28, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-28/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-2/item-1 - art-28/par-2/item-2: 前号 → 家事事件手続法 第二十八条第二項第一号 (Article 28, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-28/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-2/item-1 - art-28/par-2/item-3: 前号 → 家事事件手続法 第二十八条第二項第二号 (Article 28, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-28/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-2/item-2 - art-28/par-3: 前二項 → 家事事件手続法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-1 - art-28/par-3: 前二項 → 家事事件手続法 第二十八条第二項 (Article 28, paragraph (2)), art-28/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二十八条第二項（手続費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第二十八条第二項第二号（手続費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-2/item-2 - 家事事件手続法 第二十八条第二項第三号（手続費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-2/item-3 - 家事事件手続法 第二十八条第三項（手続費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-28/par-3 --- ## 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 28, 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