# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第三条の十四 (Article 3-14) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-14. 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: 第三条の十四 (Article 3-14)（特別の事情による申立ての却下） — address `art-3-14` - 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-3-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-14 - 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. --- ### 第三条の十四（特別の事情による申立ての却下） — (Dismissal due to Special Circumstances) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-14 **第一項** 裁判所は、第三条の二から前条までに規定する事件について日本の裁判所が管轄権を有することとなる場合（遺産の分割に関する審判事件又は特別の寄与に関する処分の審判事件について、日本の裁判所にのみ申立てをすることができる旨の合意に基づき申立てがされた場合を除く。）においても、事案の性質、申立人以外の事件の関係人の負担の程度、証拠の所在地、未成年者である子の利益その他の事情を考慮して、日本の裁判所が審理及び裁判をすることが適正かつ迅速な審理の実現を妨げ、又は相手方がある事件について申立人と相手方との間の衡平を害することとなる特別の事情があると認めるときは、その申立ての全部又は一部を却下することができる。 art-3-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-14/par-1 Even when the Japanese courts have jurisdiction over the cases prescribed in Article 3-2 through the preceding Article (except when a petition is filed based on an agreement that only permits a petition to be filed in the Japanese courts with regard to an adjudication case regarding the division of a decedent's estate or an adjudication case for a disposition regarding a special contribution), the court may dismiss the whole or part of the petition if it finds that there are special circumstances because of which, if the Japanese courts were to conduct a trial and reach a judicial decision in the case, it would prevent appropriate and swift proceedings or would be inequitable to the petitioner or the respondent in an adversarial proceeding, in consideration of circumstances such as the nature of the case, the degree of burden that persons concerned with the case other than the petitioner would have to bear, the location of evidence, and the interest of a minor child. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Even when the Japanese courts have jurisdiction over the cases prescribed in Article 3-2 through the preceding Article (except when a petition is filed based on an agreement that only permits a petition to be filed in the Japanese courts with regard to an adjudication case regarding the division of a decedent's estate or an adjudication case for a disposition regarding a special contribution), the court may dismiss the whole or part of the petition if it finds that there are special circumstances because of which, if the Japanese courts were to conduct a trial and reach a judicial decision in the case, it would prevent an appropriate and swift proceedings or would be inequitable to the petitioner or the respondent in an adversarial proceeding, in consideration of circumstances such as the nature of the case, the degree of burden that persons concerned with the case other than the petitioner would have to bear, the location of evidence, and the interest of a minor child." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Cites - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の十 (Article 3-10), art-3-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-10 - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の十一 (Article 3-11), art-3-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-11 - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の十二 (Article 3-12), art-3-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-12 - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の十三 (Article 3-13), art-3-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-13 - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の二 (Article 3-2), art-3-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-2 - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の三 (Article 3-3), art-3-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-3 - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の四 (Article 3-4), art-3-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-4 - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の五 (Article 3-5), art-3-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-5 - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の六 (Article 3-6), art-3-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-6 - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の七 (Article 3-7), art-3-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-7 - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の八 (Article 3-8), art-3-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-8 - art-3-14/par-1: 第三条の二から前条まで → 家事事件手続法 第三条の九 (Article 3-9), art-3-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-9 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第三条の十一第四項（相続に関する審判事件の管轄権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-11/par-4 - 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 3-14, 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