# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第七十九条の二 (Article 79-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-79-2. 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: 第七十九条の二 (Article 79-2)（外国裁判所の家事事件についての確定した裁判の効力） — address `art-79-2` - 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-79-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-79-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条の二（外国裁判所の家事事件についての確定した裁判の効力） — (Validity of Final and Binding Judicial Decision Rendered by Foreign Court on Domestic Relations Case) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-79-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-79-2 **第一項** 外国裁判所の家事事件についての確定した裁判（これに準ずる公的機関の判断を含む。）については、その性質に反しない限り、民事訴訟法第百十八条の規定を準用する。 art-79-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-79-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-79-2/par-1 The provisions of Article 118 of the Code of Civil Procedure apply mutatis mutandis to a final and binding judicial decision rendered by a foreign court on a domestic relations case (including an equivalent determination made by a public authority), unless contrary to the nature thereof. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-79-2/par-1: 民事訴訟法第百十八条 → 民事訴訟法 第百十八条 (Article 118), art-118 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-118 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 附則第三条第四項（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-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-4301-20/art-3/par-4 - 民事執行法 第二十四条第五項（外国裁判所の判決の執行判決） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24/par-5 --- ## 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