# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第八条 (Article 8)

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- 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: 第八条 (Article 8)（管轄の標準時） — address `art-8`
- 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-8
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### 第八条（管轄の標準時） — (Time Standards for Determining Jurisdiction)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-8</sup>

  **第一項**  裁判所の管轄は、家事審判若しくは家事調停の申立てがあった時又は裁判所が職権で家事事件の手続を開始した時を標準として定める。
  <sup>art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-8/par-1</sup>
  The jurisdiction of a court is determined on the basis of the time when a petition for adjudication of domestic relations or mediation of domestic relations is filed or when a court commences the proceedings of a domestic relations case by its own authority.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The jurisdiction of a court is determined on the basis of the time when a petition for adjudication of domestic relations or conciliation of domestic relations is filed or when a court commences the proceedings of a domestic relations case by its own authority ." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb</sup>

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## 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 8, 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