# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第九条 (Article 9) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9. 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: 第九条 (Article 9)（移送等） — address `art-9` - 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-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九条（移送等） — (Transfers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9 **第一項** 裁判所は、家事事件の全部又は一部がその管轄に属しないと認めるときは、申立てにより又は職権で、これを管轄裁判所に移送する。ただし、家庭裁判所は、事件を処理するために特に必要があると認めるときは、職権で、家事事件の全部又は一部を管轄権を有する家庭裁判所以外の家庭裁判所に移送し、又は自ら処理することができる。 art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-1 When a court finds that the whole or part of a domestic relations case is not subject to its jurisdiction, it transfers the case to a court with jurisdiction upon petition or by its own authority; provided, however, that when a family court finds it to be particularly necessary in order to handle a domestic relations case, it may transfer the whole or part of the domestic relations case to a family court other than the family court which has jurisdiction over the case, or may process the case by itself. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、家事事件がその管轄に属する場合においても、次の各号に掲げる事由があるときは、職権で、家事事件の全部又は一部を当該各号に定める家庭裁判所に移送することができる。 art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-2 Even where a domestic relations case is subject to the jurisdiction of a family court, if any of the grounds set forth in the following items exists, the family court may, by its own authority, transfer the whole or part of the domestic relations case to the family court specified respectively in these items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 家事事件の手続が遅滞することを避けるため必要があると認めるときその他相当と認めるとき　第五条の規定により管轄権を有しないこととされた家庭裁判所 art-9/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-2/item-1 when the family court finds it to be necessary to transfer the domestic relations case in order to avoid delaying the proceedings of the case or finds it to be appropriate to do so for any other reasons:the family court that is not vested with jurisdiction over the case pursuant to the provisions of Article 5; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 事件を処理するために特に必要があると認めるとき　前号の家庭裁判所以外の家庭裁判所 art-9/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-2/item-2 when the family court finds it to be particularly necessary to transfer the domestic relations case in order to process the case:a family court other than the court set forth in the preceding item. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "when the family court finds it to be particularly necessary to transfer the domestic relations case in order to process the case:a family court other than the court set forth in the preceding paragraph." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第三項** 前二項の規定による移送の裁判及び第一項の申立てを却下する裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-3 An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision of transfer under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs and a judicial decision to dismiss the petition set forth in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前項の規定による移送の裁判に対する即時抗告は、執行停止の効力を有する。 art-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-4 An immediate appeal against a judicial decision of transfer under the provisions of the preceding paragraph has the effect of a stay of execution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 民事訴訟法第二十二条の規定は、家事事件の移送の裁判について準用する。 art-9/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-5 The provisions of Article 22 of the Code of Civil Procedure apply mutatis mutandis to a judicial decision of transfer of a domestic relations case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-9/par-2/item-1: 第五条 → 家事事件手続法 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-5 - art-9/par-2/item-2: 前号 → 家事事件手続法 第九条第二項第一号 (Article 9, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-9/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-2/item-1 - art-9/par-3: 前二項 → 家事事件手続法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-1 - art-9/par-3: 前二項 → 家事事件手続法 第九条第二項 (Article 9, paragraph (2)), art-9/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-2 - art-9/par-4: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第九条第三項 (Article 9, paragraph (3)), art-9/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-3 - art-9/par-5: 民事訴訟法第二十二条 → 民事訴訟法 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-22 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第九条第二項第二号（移送等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-2/item-2 - 家事事件手続法 第九条第三項（移送等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-3 - 家事事件手続法 第九条第四項（移送等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-4 - 家事事件手続法 第二百四十六条第四項（地方裁判所又は簡易裁判所への移送） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-246/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-246/par-4 --- ## 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 9, paragraph (2), item (ii) — 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