# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百二十条 (Article 120) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120. 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: 第百二十条 (Article 120)（陳述及び意見の聴取） — address `art-120` - 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-120 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120 - 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. --- ### 第百二十条（陳述及び意見の聴取） — (Hearing Statements and Opinions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-120 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、次の各号に掲げる審判をする場合には、当該各号に定める者（第一号から第三号までにあっては、申立人を除く。）の陳述を聴かなければならない。ただし、成年被後見人となるべき者及び成年被後見人については、その者の心身の障害によりその者の陳述を聴くことができないときは、この限りでない。 art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-1 When making the rulings set forth in the following items, the family court must hear statements from the persons specified respectively in these items (in items (i) through (iii), excluding the petitioner); provided, however, that this does not apply to a person who is or is to be an adult under guardianship if it is impossible to hear their statements due to the mental or physical disability of the adult under guardianship: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When making the rulings set forth in the following items, the family court must hear statements from the persons specified respectively in these items (in items (i) through (iii), excluding the petitioner); provided, however, that this does not apply to a person who is or is to be an adult under guardianship if it is impossible to hear their opinions due to the mental or physical disability of the adult under guardianship:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **一** 後見開始の審判　成年被後見人となるべき者 art-120/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-1/item-1 a ruling of the commencement of guardianship:the person who is to be an adult under guardianship; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 後見開始の審判の取消しの審判（民法第十条の規定による場合に限る。）　成年被後見人及び成年後見人 art-120/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-1/item-2 a ruling to revoke a ruling of the commencement of guardianship (limited to the case under the provisions of Article 10 of the Civil Code):the adult under guardianship and a guardian of that adult; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 成年後見人又は成年後見監督人の選任の審判　成年被後見人となるべき者又は成年被後見人 art-120/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-1/item-3 a ruling of the appointment of a guardian of an adult or supervisor of a guardian of an adult:the person who is or is to be an adult under guardianship; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 成年後見人の解任の審判　成年後見人 art-120/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-1/item-4 a ruling of the dismissal of a guardian of an adult:the guardian of an adult; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 成年後見監督人の解任の審判　成年後見監督人 art-120/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-1/item-5 a ruling of the dismissal of a supervisor of a guardian of an adult:the supervisor of a guardian of an adult; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六** 成年被後見人に宛てた郵便物等の配達の嘱託の審判　成年被後見人 art-120/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-1/item-6 a ruling of the commission of delivery of a postal item, etc. addressed to an adult under guardianship:the adult under guardianship. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、次の各号に掲げる審判をする場合には、当該各号に定める者の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-120/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-2 When making the rulings set forth in the following items, the family court must hear the opinions of the persons specified respectively in these items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 成年後見人の選任の審判　成年後見人となるべき者 art-120/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-2/item-1 a ruling of the appointment of a guardian of an adult:the person who is to be a guardian of an adult; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 成年後見監督人の選任の審判　成年後見監督人となるべき者 art-120/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-2/item-2 a ruling of the appointment of a supervisor of a guardian of an adult:the person who is to be a supervisor of a guardian of an adult. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-120/par-1: 第一号から第三号まで → 家事事件手続法 第百二十条第一項第一号 (Article 120, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-120/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-1/item-1 - art-120/par-1: 第一号から第三号まで → 家事事件手続法 第百二十条第一項第二号 (Article 120, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-120/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-1/item-2 - art-120/par-1: 第一号から第三号まで → 家事事件手続法 第百二十条第一項第三号 (Article 120, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-120/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-1/item-3 - art-120/par-1/item-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 第百二十条第一項（陳述及び意見の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-120/par-1 --- ## 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 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 (家事事件手続法), Article 120, 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