# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第三条の十二 (Article 3-12) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-12. 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: 第三条の十二 (Article 3-12)（財産の分与に関する処分の審判事件の管轄権） — address `art-3-12` - 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-3-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-12 - 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. --- ### 第三条の十二（財産の分与に関する処分の審判事件の管轄権） — (Jurisdiction over Adjudication Cases for Dispositions Regarding the Division of Property) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Jurisdiction over Adjudication Cases for Dispositions Regarding the Distribution of Property)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb art-3-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-12 **第一項** 裁判所は、財産の分与に関する処分の審判事件（別表第二の四の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。第百五十条第五号及び第百五十二条の二第二項において同じ。）について、次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、管轄権を有する。 art-3-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-12/par-1 The court has jurisdiction over an adjudication case for a disposition regarding the division of property (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (4); the same applies in Article 150, item (v) and Article 152-2, paragraph (2)) if the case falls under any of the following items: machine translation, not official **一** 夫又は妻であった者の一方からの申立てであって、他の一方の住所（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。 art-3-12/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-12/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-12/par-1/item-1 the case is based on a petition filed by a person who has been a husband or wife, and the other party is domiciled in Japan (or resides in Japan if the other party has no domicile or the other party's domicile is unknown); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 夫であった者及び妻であった者の双方が日本の国籍を有するとき。 art-3-12/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-12/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-12/par-1/item-2 both the person who has been a husband and the person who has been a wife have Japanese nationality; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 日本国内に住所がある夫又は妻であった者の一方からの申立てであって、夫であった者及び妻であった者が最後の共通の住所を日本国内に有していたとき。 art-3-12/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-12/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-12/par-1/item-3 the case is based on a petition filed by a person who has been a husband or wife and is domiciled in Japan, and the person who has been a husband and the person who has been a wife were last domiciled together in Japan; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 日本国内に住所がある夫又は妻であった者の一方からの申立てであって、他の一方が行方不明であるとき、他の一方の住所がある国においてされた財産の分与に関する処分に係る確定した裁判が日本国で効力を有しないときその他の日本の裁判所が審理及び裁判をすることが当事者間の衡平を図り、又は適正かつ迅速な審理の実現を確保することとなる特別の事情があると認められるとき。 art-3-12/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-12/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-12/par-1/item-4 the case is based on a petition filed by a person who has been a husband or wife and is domiciled in Japan and the other party's whereabouts are unknown, or when the final judgment in a disposition regarding the division of property obtained in the country where the other party was domiciled has no legal effect in Japan, or the existence of special circumstances are acknowledged for having other courts in Japan undertake to examine or litigate so as to maintain an equitable balance between the two parties or to achieve securing appropriate and swift proceedings. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the case is based on a petition filed by a person who has been a husband or wife and is domiciled in Japan and the other party's whereabouts are unknown, or when the final judgment in a disposition regarding the distribution of property obtained in the country where the other party was domiciled has no legal effect in Japan, or the existence of special circumstances are acknowledged for having other courts in Japan undertake to examine or litigate so as to maintain an equitable balance between the two parties or to achieve securing appropriate and swift proceedings." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Cites - art-3-12/par-1: 第百五十条第五号 → 家事事件手続法 第百五十条第一項第五号 (Article 150, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-150/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-150/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-150/par-1/item-5 - art-3-12/par-1: 第百五十二条の二第二項 → 家事事件手続法 第百五十二条の二第二項 (Article 152-2, paragraph (2)), art-152-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-152-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-152-2/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第三条の四第二項（子の監護に関する処分についての裁判に係る事件等の管轄権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-3-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-3-4/par-2 - 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 3-12 — 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 3-12, paragraph (1), item (iv) — 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch domestic-relations-case-procedure-act-20261105T164326-001, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05