# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第三十七条 (Article 37) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-37. 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37) — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-37 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条 art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-37 **第一項** 離婚の訴えに係る訴訟における和解（これにより離婚がされるものに限る。以下この条において同じ。）並びに請求の放棄及び認諾については、第十九条第二項の規定にかかわらず、民事訴訟法第二百六十六条（第二項中請求の認諾に関する部分を除く。）、第二百六十七条第一項及び第二百六十七条の二の規定を適用する。ただし、請求の認諾については、第三十二条第一項の附帯処分についての裁判又は同条第三項の親権者の指定についての裁判をすることを要しない場合に限る。 art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-37/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (2), the provisions of Article 266 of the Code of Civil Procedure (excluding the part related to the acknowledgement of a claim in paragraph (2)) and of Article 267, paragraph (1) and Article 267-2 of that Code apply to a settlement (limited to a settlement by which divorce is effected; the same applies in this Article below) and the waiver or acknowledgement of a claim in litigation connected with an action for divorce provided, however, that, with regard to the acknowledgement of claims, this is limited to cases in which it is not necessary to make a judicial decision on ancillary disposition, as referred to in Article 32, paragraph (1) or a judicial decision designating the person with parental authority, as referred to in paragraph (3) of that Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合における民事訴訟法第二百六十七条第一項及び第二百六十七条の二第一項の規定の適用については、同法第二百六十七条第一項中「について電子調書を作成し、これをファイルに記録した」とあるのは「を調書に記載した」と、「その記録」とあるのは「その記載」と、同法第二百六十七条の二第一項中「規定によりファイルに記録された電子調書」とあるのは「調書」とする。 art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-37/par-2 With regard to the application of Article 267, paragraph (1) and Article 267-2, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure in the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the phrase "creates an electronic record of a settlement or of the waiver or acknowledgment of a claim and records it in the court's computer files" in Article 267, paragraph (1) of that Code is deemed to be replaced with "enters a settlement or the waiver or acknowledgment of a claim in a record", the phrase "that entry" is deemed to be replaced with "that statement", and the phrase "an electronic record recorded in the court's computer files pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article" in Article 267-2, paragraph (1) of that Code is deemed to be replaced with "a record referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article". machine translation, not official **第三項** 離婚の訴えに係る訴訟においては、民事訴訟法第二百六十四条及び第二百六十五条の規定による和解をすることができない。 art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-37/par-3 A settlement under the provisions of Article 264 and Article 265 of the Code of Civil Procedure may not be effected in litigation connected with a divorce action. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A settlement under the provisions of Article 264 and Article 265 of the Code of Civil Procedure may not be effected in litigation connected with a divorce actionｎ." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb **第四項** 離婚の訴えに係る訴訟における民事訴訟法第八十九条第二項及び第百七十条第三項の期日においては、同法第八十九条第三項及び第百七十条第四項の当事者は、和解及び請求の認諾をすることができない。ただし、当該期日における手続が裁判所及び当事者双方が映像と音声の送受信により相手の状態を相互に認識しながら通話をすることができる方法によって行われた場合には、この限りでない。 art-37/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-37/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-37/par-4 The parties referred to in Article 89, paragraph (3) and Article 170, paragraph (4) of the Code of Civil Procedure may not effect a settlement or acknowledge a claim on the date provided in Article 89, paragraph (2) and Article 170, paragraph (3) in litigation connected with an action for divorce provided, however, that this does not apply if the proceedings on that date are conducted by a method that allows both the court and each of the parties to communicate with one another through audio and visual transmissions while gaining an awareness of one another's situation. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The parties referred to in Article 89, paragraph (3) and Article 170, paragraph (4) of the Code of Civil Procedure may not effect a settlement or acknowledge a claim on the date provided in Article 89, paragraph (2) and Article 170, paragraph (3) in litigation connected with an action for divorce provided, however, that this does not apply if the proceedings on that date are conducted by a method that allows both the court and each of the parties to communicate with one another , through audio and visual transmissions while gaining an awareness of one another' situation." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb --- ## Cites - art-37/par-1: この条 → 人事訴訟法 第三十七条 (Article 37), art-37 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-37 - art-37/par-1: 第十九条第二項 → 人事訴訟法 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-19/par-2 - art-37/par-1: 民事訴訟法第二百六十六条 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十六条 (Article 266), art-266 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-266 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-266 - art-37/par-1: 第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十六条第二項 (Article 266, paragraph (2)), art-266/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-266/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-266/par-2 - art-37/par-1: 第二百六十七条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十七条第一項 (Article 267, paragraph (1)), art-267/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-267/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-267/par-1 - art-37/par-1: 第二百六十七条の二 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十七条の二 (Article 267-2), art-267-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-267-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-267-2 - art-37/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-37/par-1: 同条第三項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十二条第三項 (Article 32, paragraph (3)), art-32/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-32/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-32/par-3 - art-37/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-37/par-1 - art-37/par-2: 民事訴訟法第二百六十七条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十七条第一項 (Article 267, paragraph (1)), art-267/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-267/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-267/par-1 - art-37/par-2: 第二百六十七条の二第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十七条の二第一項 (Article 267-2, paragraph (1)), art-267-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-267-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-267-2/par-1 - art-37/par-3: 民事訴訟法第二百六十四条 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十四条 (Article 264), art-264 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-264 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-264 - art-37/par-3: 第二百六十五条 → 民事訴訟法 第二百六十五条 (Article 265), art-265 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-265 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-265 - art-37/par-4: 民事訴訟法第八十九条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第八十九条第二項 (Article 89, paragraph (2)), art-89/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-89/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-89/par-2 - art-37/par-4: 第百七十条第三項 → 民事訴訟法 第百七十条第三項 (Article 170, paragraph (3)), art-170/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-170/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-170/par-3 - art-37/par-4: 同法第八十九条第三項 → 民事訴訟法 第八十九条第三項 (Article 89, paragraph (3)), art-89/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-89/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-89/par-3 - art-37/par-4: 第百七十条第四項 → 民事訴訟法 第百七十条第四項 (Article 170, paragraph (4)), art-170/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-170/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-170/par-4 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第三十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-37/par-1 - 人事訴訟法 第三十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-37/par-2 - 人事訴訟法 第四十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-46/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 37, paragraph (3) — 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 (人事訴訟法), Article 37, paragraph (4) — 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 - 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