# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/suppl-4251-47/art-15. 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) — address `suppl-4251-47/art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/suppl-4251-47/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-4251-47/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条 suppl-4251-47/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/suppl-4251-47/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-4251-47/art-15 **第一項** 旧法第二十条第二項ただし書又は同項第四号の規定による保護者の順位の変更又は保護者の選任の申立て（この法律の施行の際、精神障害者を対象者とする処遇事件が現に係属し、又は精神障害者に対する旧医療観察法による医療が終了していない場合における当該申立てに限り、この法律の施行前に当該申立てに係る審判が確定したものを除く。）は、新医療観察法第二十三条の二第二項ただし書又は同項第四号の規定による保護者の順位の変更又は保護者の選任の申立てとみなす。 suppl-4251-47/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/suppl-4251-47/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-4251-47/art-15/par-1 A petition for a change in the order among custodians or the appointment of a custodian pursuant to the proviso to Article 20, paragraph (2) of the Former Act or item (iv) of that paragraph (limited to such a petition in the case where, at the time of the enforcement of this Act, a treatment case in which a person with a mental disorder is the covered person is currently pending, or medical care for the person with a mental disorder under the Former Medical Treatment and Supervision Act has not ended, and excluding a petition for which the ruling concerned became final and binding before the enforcement of this Act) is deemed to be a petition for a change in the order among custodians or the appointment of a custodian pursuant to the proviso to Article 23-2, paragraph (2) of the New Medical Treatment and Supervision Act or item (iv) of that paragraph. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 附則第十四条第一項（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-4251-47/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-4251-47/art-14/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch domestic-relations-case-procedure-act-20261105T164326-006, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05