# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百十九条 (Article 119) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-119. 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: 第百十九条 (Article 119)（精神の状況に関する鑑定及び意見の聴取） — address `art-119` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-119 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-119 - 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. --- ### 第百十九条（精神の状況に関する鑑定及び意見の聴取） — (Expert Examinations and Hearing of Opinions Concerning Mental State) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-119 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-119 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-119 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、成年被後見人となるべき者の精神の状況につき鑑定をしなければ、後見開始の審判をすることができない。ただし、明らかにその必要がないと認めるときは、この限りでない。 art-119/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-119/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-119/par-1 A family court may not make a ruling of the commencement of guardianship unless it conducts an expert examination concerning the mental state of a person who is to be an adult under guardianship; provided, however, that this does not apply if it finds such examination to be obviously unnecessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、成年被後見人の精神の状況につき医師の意見を聴かなければ、民法第十条の規定による後見開始の審判の取消しの審判をすることができない。ただし、明らかにその必要がないと認めるときは、この限りでない。 art-119/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-119/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-119/par-2 A family court may not make a ruling to revoke a ruling of the commencement of guardianship under the provisions of Article 10 of the Civil Code unless it hears the opinion of a physician concerning the mental state of an adult under guardianship; provided, however, that this does not apply if it finds the hearing of opinions to be obviously unnecessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-119/par-2: 民法第十条 → 民法 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-10 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第百三十三条第一項（成年後見に関する審判事件の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-133/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 家事事件手続法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/423AC0000000052/20260624_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