# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第七十条 (Article 70) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-70. 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: 第七十条 (Article 70)（事実の調査の通知） — address `art-70` - 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-70 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-70 - 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. --- ### 第七十条（事実の調査の通知） — (Notice of Investigation of Facts) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-70 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、別表第二に掲げる事項についての家事審判の手続において、事実の調査をしたときは、特に必要がないと認める場合を除き、その旨を当事者及び利害関係参加人に通知しなければならない。 art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-70/par-1 When a family court has investigated the facts in proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations regarding any of the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, it must give notice to that effect to a party and an interested party intervenor, except when it finds it not to be particularly necessary to do so. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-70/par-1: 別表第二 → 家事事件手続法 別表第二 (Appended Table 2), appdx-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/appdx-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第百八十八条第四項（推定相続人の廃除の審判事件及び推定相続人の廃除の取消しの審判事件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-188/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-188/par-4 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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