# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第三十四条の四 (Article 34-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34-4. 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: 第三十四条の四 (Article 34-4)（判決前の親子交流の試行的実施） — address `art-34-4` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34-4 - 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. --- ### 第三十四条の四（判決前の親子交流の試行的実施） — Trial Implementation of Parent-Child Contact Before Judgment caption: machine translation, not official art-34-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34-4 **第一項** 裁判所は、第三十二条第一項の子の監護者の指定その他の子の監護に関する処分（子の監護に要する費用の分担に関する処分を除く。）の申立てがされている場合において、子の心身の状態に照らして相当でないと認める事情がなく、かつ、事実の調査のため必要があると認めるときは、当事者に対し、子との交流の試行的実施を促すことができる。 art-34-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34-4/par-1 If a petition for the designation of a person to have custody of a child or for other matters related to child custody as referred to in Article 32, paragraph (1) (excluding matters related to the sharing of expenses required for child custody) has been filed, and there are no circumstances found to make it inappropriate in light of the child's physical and mental condition, and the court finds it necessary for an examination of the facts, the court may encourage the parties to carry out a trial implementation of contact with the child. machine translation, not official **第二項** 裁判所は、前項の試行的実施を促すに当たっては、交流の方法、交流をする日時及び場所並びに家庭裁判所調査官その他の者の立会いその他の関与の有無を定めるとともに、当事者に対して子の心身に有害な影響を及ぼす言動を禁止することその他適当と認める条件を付することができる。 art-34-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34-4/par-2 In encouraging the trial implementation under the preceding paragraph, the court may specify the method of contact, the date, time and place of contact, and whether a family court investigator or another person is to be present or otherwise involved, and may also impose on the parties a condition prohibiting words or conduct that have a harmful effect on the mind and body of the child, or any other condition it finds appropriate. machine translation, not official **第三項** 裁判所は、第一項の試行的実施を促したときは、当事者に対してその結果の報告（当該試行的実施をしなかったときは、その理由の説明）を求めることができる。 art-34-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34-4/par-3 If the court has encouraged the trial implementation referred to in paragraph (1), it may request the parties to report the result (or, if the trial implementation was not carried out, to explain the reason). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-34-4/par-1: 第三十二条第一項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-32/par-1 - art-34-4/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十四条の四第一項 (Article 34-4, paragraph (1)), art-34-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34-4/par-1 - art-34-4/par-3: 第一項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十四条の四第一項 (Article 34-4, paragraph (1)), art-34-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第三十四条の四第二項（判決前の親子交流の試行的実施） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34-4/par-2 - 人事訴訟法 第三十四条の四第三項（判決前の親子交流の試行的実施） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34-4/par-3 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-status-litigation-act-20261102T174633-002, translated 2026-11-03 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch personal-status-litigation-act-20261102T174633-002, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02