# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第六十一条 (Article 61) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61. 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: 第六十一条 (Article 61)（事実の調査の嘱託等） — address `art-61` - 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-61 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61 - 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. --- ### 第六十一条（事実の調査の嘱託等） — (Commission of Investigation of Facts) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、他の家庭裁判所又は簡易裁判所に事実の調査を嘱託することができる。 art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61/par-1 A family court may commission another family court or a summary court to investigate facts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による嘱託により職務を行う受託裁判官は、他の家庭裁判所又は簡易裁判所において事実の調査をすることを相当と認めるときは、更に事実の調査の嘱託をすることができる。 art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61/par-2 When a commissioned judge who performs duties as commissioned under the provisions of the preceding paragraph finds it to be appropriate for another family court or a summary court to examine facts, the judge may further commission the other court to investigate facts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 家庭裁判所は、相当と認めるときは、受命裁判官に事実の調査をさせることができる。 art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61/par-3 A family court may, when it finds it to be appropriate, have an authorized judge investigate facts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前三項の規定により受託裁判官又は受命裁判官が事実の調査をする場合には、家庭裁判所及び裁判長の職務は、その裁判官が行う。 art-61/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61/par-4 When a commissioned judge or authorized judge investigates facts pursuant to the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, the respective judge performs the duties of the family court and the presiding judge. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a commissioned judge or authorized judge investigates facts pursuant to the provisions of preceding three paragraphs, the respective judge performs the duties of the family court and the presiding judge." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Cites - art-61/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第六十一条第一項 (Article 61, paragraph (1)), art-61/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61/par-1 - art-61/par-4: 前三項 → 家事事件手続法 第六十一条第一項 (Article 61, paragraph (1)), art-61/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61/par-1 - art-61/par-4: 前三項 → 家事事件手続法 第六十一条第二項 (Article 61, paragraph (2)), art-61/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61/par-2 - art-61/par-4: 前三項 → 家事事件手続法 第六十一条第三項 (Article 61, paragraph (3)), art-61/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61/par-3 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第五十三条第一項（受命裁判官による手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-53/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第六十一条第二項（事実の調査の嘱託等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第六十一条第四項（事実の調査の嘱託等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-61/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-61/par-4 - 家事事件手続法 第八十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-84/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第二百五十八条第一項（家事審判の手続の規定の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-258/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-258/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第二百五十八条第二項（家事審判の手続の規定の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-258/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-258/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第二百六十条第一項第六号（調停委員会等の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-260/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-260/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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 61, paragraph (4) — 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