# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第十二節 (Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 12) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-12. 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: 家事事件手続法 (Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act), 平成二十三年法律第五十二号 - English title "Domestic Relations Case Procedure 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: 第十二節 (Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 12) — address `pt-2/ch-2/sec-12` - Text: the text as amended with effect from 2027-06-23 (On a day set by Cabinet Order, no later than 23 June 2027 — the amending law allows up to one year from promulgation. The exact day is not fixed yet.), standing until 2028-06-12 as now scheduled, since the next amendment's day is not fixed — NOT yet in force (revision 20270623_508AC0000000045) - URL (this text's page, at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-12 - The same address in the text in force (its wording there may differ): https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/pt-2/ch-2/sec-12 - Every provision below carries its address and its place on this text's page 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. 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The Ministry's English is given only where this text's Japanese is a wording the Ministry translated — the same as the text in force, or for a text not yet in force, a wording it translated ahead; every other paragraph's English is machine translation. --- ## 第十二節　相続の場合における祭具等の所有権の承継者の指定の審判事件 — Section 12 Adjudication Cases for Designation of Successor to Ownership of Equipment for Rituals upon Inheritance heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System pt-2/ch-2/sec-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-12 ### 第百九十条 art-190 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-12#art-190 **第一項** 相続の場合における祭具等の所有権の承継者の指定の審判事件（別表第二の十一の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。）は、相続が開始した地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-190/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-12#art-190/par-1 An adjudication case for the designation of a successor to the ownership of equipment for rituals, etc. upon inheritance (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (11)) is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place where the inheritance process has commenced. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、相続の場合における祭具等の所有権の承継者の指定の審判において、当事者に対し、系譜、祭具及び墳墓の引渡しを命ずることができる。 art-190/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-12#art-190/par-2 In a ruling of the designation of a successor to the ownership of equipment for rituals, etc. upon inheritance, the family court may order a party to deliver genealogy information, equipment for rituals and graves. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 相続人その他の利害関係人は、相続の場合における祭具等の所有権の承継者の指定の審判及びその申立てを却下する審判に対し、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-190/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-12#art-190/par-3 An heir and any other interested party may file an immediate appeal against a ruling of the designation of a successor to the ownership of equipment for rituals, etc. upon inheritance and a ruling to dismiss a petition for such ruling. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 家事事件手続法 — the text as 令和八年法律第四十五号 leaves it, from a date not yet fixed (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/423AC0000000052/20270623_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05