# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第七十二条 (Article 72) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-72. 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: 第七十二条 (Article 72)（審判日） — address `art-72` - 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-72 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-72 - 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. --- ### 第七十二条（審判日） — (Date of Ruling) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-72 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、前条の規定により審理を終結したときは、審判をする日を定めなければならない。 art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-72/par-1 When a family court concludes proceedings under the provisions of the preceding Article, it must specify a date for making a ruling. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-72/par-1: 前条 → 家事事件手続法 第七十一条 (Article 71), art-71 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-71 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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