# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第三条の十 (Article 3-10) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-10. 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: 第三条の十 (Article 3-10)（夫婦、親子その他の親族関係から生ずる扶養の義務に関する審判事件の管轄権） — address `art-3-10` - 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-3-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-10 - 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. --- ### 第三条の十（夫婦、親子その他の親族関係から生ずる扶養の義務に関する審判事件の管轄権） — (Jurisdiction over Adjudication Cases Regarding Duty to Support Arising from Family Relationships Such As Relationship Between Husband and Wife or Between Parents and Their Child) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-10 **第一項** 裁判所は、夫婦、親子その他の親族関係から生ずる扶養の義務に関する審判事件（別表第一の八十四の項及び八十五の項並びに別表第二の一の項から三の項まで、九の項及び十の項の事項についての審判事件（同表の三の項の事項についての審判事件にあっては、子の監護に要する費用の分担に関する処分の審判事件に限る。）をいう。）について、扶養義務者（別表第一の八十四の項の事項についての審判事件にあっては、扶養義務者となるべき者）であって申立人でないもの又は扶養権利者（子の監護に要する費用の分担に関する処分の審判事件にあっては、子の監護者又は子）の住所（住所がない場合又は住所が知れない場合には、居所）が日本国内にあるときは、管轄権を有する。 art-3-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-10/par-1 The court has jurisdiction over an adjudication case regarding the duty to support arising from family relationships such as the relationship between a husband and wife or between parents and their child (meaning adjudication cases regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, rows (84) and (85) and Appended Table 2, rows (1) through (3), (9), and (10) (in an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (3), limited to an adjudication case for a disposition regarding the sharing of expenses required for the custody of a child)) if a person under a duty to support (in an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (84), a person who is to be a person under a duty to support) who is not the petitioner or a person entitled to support (in an adjudication case for a disposition regarding the sharing of expenses required for the custody of a child, the person who has custody of the child, or the child) is domiciled in Japan (or resides in Japan if the person or child has no domicile or the person's or child's domicile is unknown). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The court has jurisdiction over an adjudication case regarding the duty to support arising from family relationships such as the relationship between a husband and wife or between parents and their child (meaning adjudication cases regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (84) and Appended Table 2, rows (1) through (3), (9), and (10) (in an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (3), limited to an adjudication case for a disposition regarding the sharing of expenses required for the custody of a child)) if a person under a duty to support (in an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (84), a person who is to be a person under a duty to support) who is not the petitioner or a person entitled to support (in an adjudication case for a disposition regarding the sharing of expenses required for the custody of a child, the person who has custody of the child, or the child) is domiciled in Japan (or resides in Japan if the person or child has no domicile or the person's or child's domicile is unknown)." — 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 第三条の十四第一項（特別の事情による申立ての却下） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-14/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 附則第三条第一項（家事事件手続法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/suppl-4301-20/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-4301-20/art-3/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 3-10, 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