# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第四章 (Part 3, Chapter 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-3/ch-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: 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: 第四章 (Part 3, Chapter 4) — address `pt-3/ch-4` - Text: the text as amended with effect from 2028-06-13 (On a day set by Cabinet Order, no later than 13 June 2028 — the amending law allows up to five years from promulgation. The exact day is not fixed yet.), standing until 2028-12-22 as now scheduled, since the next amendment's day is not fixed — NOT yet in force (revision 20280613_505AC0000000053) - URL (this text's page, at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-3/ch-4 - The same address in the text in force (its wording there may differ): https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/pt-3/ch-4 - 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. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. 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. --- ## 第四章　不服申立て等 — Chapter IV Appeals heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System pt-3/ch-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-3/ch-4 ### 第二百八十八条 art-288 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-3/ch-4#art-288 **第一項** 家事調停の手続においてされた裁判に対する不服申立て及び再審については、特別の定めのある場合を除き、それぞれ前編第一章第二節及び第三節の規定を準用する。 art-288/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20280613_505AC0000000053/text/pt-3/ch-4#art-288/par-1 Except as otherwise provided, with regard to an appeal and an action for readjudication against a judicial decision made during proceedings for mediation of domestic relations, the provisions of Chapter I, Sections 2 and 3 of the preceding Part apply mutatis mutandis, respectively. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Except as otherwise provided, with regard to an appeal and an action for readjudication against a judicial decision made during proceedings for conciliation of domestic relations, the provisions of Chapter I, Sections 2 and 3 of the preceding Part apply mutatis mutandis, respectively." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 家事事件手続法 — the text as 令和五年法律第五十三号 leaves it, from a date not yet fixed (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/423AC0000000052/20280613_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act (家事事件手続法), Article 288, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb), 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