# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（管轄権を有する家庭裁判所の特例） — address `art-7` - 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-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（管轄権を有する家庭裁判所の特例） — (Special Provisions on Family Court's Jurisdiction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-7 **第一項** この法律の他の規定により家事事件の管轄が定まらないときは、その家事事件は、審判又は調停を求める事項に係る財産の所在地又は最高裁判所規則で定める地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-7/par-1 If jurisdiction over a domestic relations case is not determined pursuant to other provisions of this Act, the domestic relations case is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court having the jurisdiction over the location of the properties which may be involved in the matter for which adjudication or mediation is sought, or over a place specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If jurisdiction over a domestic relations case is not determined pursuant to other provisions of this Act, the domestic relations case is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court having the jurisdiction over the location of the properties which may be involved in the matter for which adjudication or conciliation is sought, or over a place specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## 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 7, 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