# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第四十二条 (Article 42) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-42. 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: 第四十二条 (Article 42)（嫡出否認の判決の通知） — address `art-42` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-42 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-42 - 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. --- ### 第四十二条（嫡出否認の判決の通知） — (Notice of Judgment in an Action to Rebut the Presumption of Legitimacy) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-42 **第一項** 裁判所は、民法第七百七十二条第三項の規定により父が定められる子について嫡出否認の判決が確定したときは、同法第七百七十四条第四項に規定する前夫（訴訟記録上その氏名及び住所又は居所が判明しているものに限る。）に対し、当該判決の内容を通知するものとする。 art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-42/par-1 When a judgment in an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy concerning a child whose paternity has been established pursuant to the provisions of Article 772, paragraph (3) of the Civil Code becomes final and binding, the court is to provide notice of the contents of the judgment to the former husband (limited to a person whose name and domicile or residence are indicated in the case record) referred to in Article 774, paragraph (4) of that Code. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-42/par-1: 民法第七百七十二条第三項 → 民法 第七百七十二条第三項 (Article 772, paragraph (3)), art-772/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-772/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772/par-3 - art-42/par-1: 同法第七百七十四条第四項 → 民法 第七百七十四条第四項 (Article 774, paragraph (4)), art-774/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-774/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-774/par-4 --- ## 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