# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第三十六条 (Article 36) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-36. 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: 第三十六条 (Article 36)（判決によらない婚姻の終了の場合の附帯処分についての裁判） — address `art-36` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-36 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-36 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条（判決によらない婚姻の終了の場合の附帯処分についての裁判） — (Judicial Decisions on Ancillary Disposition in Cases of Termination of Marriage Other Than by Judgment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-36 **第一項** 婚姻の取消し又は離婚の訴えに係る訴訟において判決によらないで当該訴えに係る婚姻が終了した場合において、既に附帯処分の申立てがされているときであって、その附帯処分に係る事項がその婚姻の終了に際し定められていないときは、受訴裁判所は、その附帯処分についての審理及び裁判をしなければならない。 art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-36/par-1 In litigation involving an action to rescind a marriage or an action for divorce, if the marriage that is the subject of that action has been terminated other than by a judgment, but a petition on an ancillary disposition has already been filed and any matter in question was not determined when the marriage was terminated, the court in charge of the case must conduct the trial and make a judicial decision on the ancillary disposition. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In litigation involving an action to rescind a marriage or an action for divorce, if the marriage that is the subject of that action has been terminated other than by a judgment, but a petition on an ancillary disposition has already been filed and any matter in question was not determined when the marriage was terminated, the court in charge of the case must conduct the trial and make a judicial decision on the ancillary disposition.." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb --- ## 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 36, 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