# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（遅滞を避ける等のための移送） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（遅滞を避ける等のための移送） — (Transfer to Avoid Delay) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-7 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、人事訴訟がその管轄に属する場合においても、当事者及び尋問を受けるべき証人の住所その他の事情を考慮して、訴訟の著しい遅滞を避け、又は当事者間の衡平を図るため必要があると認めるときは、申立てにより又は職権で、当該人事訴訟の全部又は一部を他の管轄裁判所に移送することができる。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-7/par-1 Even if personal status litigation is under the jurisdiction of a family court, the court may transfer all or part of that litigation to another court with jurisdiction upon petition or sua sponte if it finds this to be necessary in order to avoid a substantial delay in litigation or in order to help achieve equity between the parties, in light of the addresses of the parties and the witnesses to be examined, and any other circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第三十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-31/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 - 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