# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-31. 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31) — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条 art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-31 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、婚姻の取消し又は離婚の訴えに係る婚姻の当事者間に成年に達しない子がある場合には、当該訴えに係る訴訟についての第六条及び第七条の規定の適用に当たっては、その子の住所又は居所を考慮しなければならない。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-31/par-1 If the parties to a marriage that is subject to an action to rescind the marriage or an action for divorce have a child who has not yet reached adulthood, the family court must take into consideration the domicile or residence of that child in applying the provisions of Article 6 and Article 7 to the litigation connected with that action. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-31/par-1: 第六条 → 人事訴訟法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-6 - art-31/par-1: 第七条 → 人事訴訟法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-7 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 附則第四条第一項（人事訴訟の管轄等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-4/par-1 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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