# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第八条 (Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-8. 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: 第八条 (Article 8)（関連請求に係る訴訟の移送） — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条（関連請求に係る訴訟の移送） — (Transfer of Litigation Involving Related Claims) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-8 **第一項** 家庭裁判所に係属する人事訴訟に係る請求の原因である事実によって生じた損害の賠償に関する請求に係る訴訟の係属する第一審裁判所は、相当と認めるときは、申立てにより、当該訴訟をその家庭裁判所に移送することができる。この場合においては、その移送を受けた家庭裁判所は、当該損害の賠償に関する請求に係る訴訟について自ら審理及び裁判をすることができる。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-8/par-1 Upon petition, a court of first instance before which there is pending litigation involving a claim for damages arising from facts that constitute a cause of action relating to personal status litigation that is pending in a family court may transfer the litigation involving the claim for damages to the family court, if it finds this to be reasonable. In this case, the family court to which the litigation is transferred may conduct its own trial and reach a judicial decision itself for the litigation involving the claim for damages. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Upon petition, a court of first instance before which there is pending litigation involving a claim for damages arising from facts that constitute a cause of action relating to personal status litigation that is pending in a family court may transfer the litigation involving the claim for damages to the family court, if it finds this to be reasonable. In this case, the family court to which the litigation is transferred may conduct its own trial and reach a judicial decisions itself for the litigation involving the claim for damages." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb **第二項** 前項の規定により移送を受けた家庭裁判所は、同項の人事訴訟に係る事件及びその移送に係る損害の賠償に関する請求に係る事件について口頭弁論の併合を命じなければならない。 art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-8/par-2 A family court to which litigation involving a claim for damages is transferred pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must order the consolidation of oral arguments for the personal status litigation case that is referred to in that paragraph and the transferred case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-8/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-8/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第八条第二項（関連請求に係る訴訟の移送） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-8/par-2 - 人事訴訟法 第十七条第三項（関連請求の併合等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-17/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-17/par-3 --- ## 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 8, 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