# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第四条 (Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-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: 第四条 (Article 4)（人事に関する訴えの管轄） — address `art-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-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-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. 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. --- ### 第四条（人事に関する訴えの管轄） — (Jurisdiction Over Personal Status Actions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-4 **第一項** 人事に関する訴えは、当該訴えに係る身分関係の当事者が普通裁判籍を有する地又はその死亡の時にこれを有した地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に専属する。 art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-4/par-1 A personal status action falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the family court covering the place that constitutes the general venue for the party to the familial relationship that the action concerns, or the place that constituted the general venue for that party at the time of their death. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による管轄裁判所が定まらないときは、人事に関する訴えは、最高裁判所規則で定める地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に専属する。 art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-4/par-2 If the court of jurisdiction cannot be determined under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the personal status action falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the family court that has jurisdiction over the place specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the court of jurisdiction cannot be determined under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is not established, the personal status action falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the family court that has jurisdiction over the place specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb --- ## Cites - art-4/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第四条第一項 (Article 4, paragraph (1)), art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-4/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第四条第二項（人事に関する訴えの管轄） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-4/par-2 - 人事訴訟法 第五条第一項（併合請求における管轄） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-5/par-1 - 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 - 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 4, paragraph (2) — 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