# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第二十五条 (Article 25) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-25. 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: 人事訴訟法 (Personal Status Litigation Act), 平成十五年法律第百九号 - English title "Personal Status Litigation 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: 第二十五条 (Article 25)（判決確定後の人事に関する訴えの提起の禁止） — address `art-25` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-25 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条（判決確定後の人事に関する訴えの提起の禁止） — (Prohibition on the Filing of Actions Concerning Personal Status After a Judgment Becomes Final and Binding) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-25 **第一項** 人事訴訟の判決（訴えを不適法として却下した判決を除く。次項において同じ。）が確定した後は、原告は、当該人事訴訟において請求又は請求の原因を変更することにより主張することができた事実に基づいて同一の身分関係についての人事に関する訴えを提起することができない。 art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-25/par-1 After a judgment on personal status litigation (excluding a judgment denying an action as not in accordance with the law; the same applies in the following paragraph) becomes final and binding, the plaintiff may not file a personal status action concerning the same familial relationship based on facts that the plaintiff could have asserted by amending the claim or the cause of action in that litigation. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "After a judgment on personal status litigation (excluding a judgments denying an action as not in accordance with the law; the same applies in the following paragraph) becomes final and binding, the plaintiff may not file a personal status action concerning the same familial relationship based on facts that the plaintiff could have asserted by amending the claim or the cause of action in that litigation." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb **第二項** 人事訴訟の判決が確定した後は、被告は、当該人事訴訟において反訴を提起することにより主張することができた事実に基づいて同一の身分関係についての人事に関する訴えを提起することができない。 art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-25/par-2 After a judgment on personal status litigation becomes final and binding, the defendant may not file a personal status action concerning the same familial relationship based on facts that the defendant could have asserted by filing a counterclaim in that litigation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-25/par-1: 次項 → 人事訴訟法 第二十五条第二項 (Article 25, paragraph (2)), art-25/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-25/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第二十五条第一項（判決確定後の人事に関する訴えの提起の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-25/par-1 - 人事訴訟法 附則第六条第一項（判決確定後の人事に関する訴えの提起に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-6/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Personal Status Litigation Act, written 2026-11-03 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act (人事訴訟法), Article 25, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02