# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第九十一条 (Article 91) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-91. 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: 第九十一条 (Article 91)（抗告裁判所による裁判） — address `art-91` - 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-91 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-91 - 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. --- ### 第九十一条（抗告裁判所による裁判） — (Judicial Decisions by Courts in Charge of Appeals) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-91 **第一項** 抗告裁判所は、即時抗告について決定で裁判をする。 art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-91/par-1 The court in charge of an appeal makes a judicial decision on an immediate appeal by an order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 抗告裁判所は、即時抗告を理由があると認める場合には、家事審判事件について自ら審判に代わる裁判をしなければならない。ただし、第九十三条第三項において準用する民事訴訟法第三百七条又は第三百八条第一項の規定により事件を第一審裁判所に差し戻すときは、この限りでない。 art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-91/par-2 When the court in charge of an appeal finds grounds for an immediate appeal, it must by itself make a judicial decision in lieu of a ruling on the case for adjudication of domestic relations; provided, however, that this does not apply when it remands the case to the court of first instance pursuant to the provisions of Article 307 or Article 308, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 93, paragraph (3). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-91/par-2: 第九十三条第三項 → 家事事件手続法 第九十三条第三項 (Article 93, paragraph (3)), art-93/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-93/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-93/par-3 - art-91/par-2: 民事訴訟法第三百七条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百七条 (Article 307), art-307 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-307 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-307 - art-91/par-2: 第三百八条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百八条第一項 (Article 308, paragraph (1)), art-308/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-308/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-308/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第九十六条第一項（即時抗告の規定及び民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-96/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第九十八条第一項（即時抗告等の規定及び民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-98/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第二百八十九条第一項（義務の履行状況の調査及び履行の勧告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-289/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-289/par-1 --- ## 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