# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第十三条 (Article 13) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-13. 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: 第十三条 (Article 13)（裁判所書記官の除斥及び忌避） — address `art-13` - 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-13 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-13 - 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. --- ### 第十三条（裁判所書記官の除斥及び忌避） — (Disqualification and Challenge to Court Clerk) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-13 **第一項** 裁判所書記官の除斥及び忌避については、第十条、第十一条並びに前条第三項、第五項、第八項及び第九項の規定を準用する。 art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-13/par-1 With regard to disqualification and a challenge to a court clerk, the provisions of Article 10, Article 11, and paragraphs (3), (5), (8), and (9) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判所書記官について除斥又は忌避の申立てがあったときは、その裁判所書記官は、その申立てについての裁判が確定するまでその申立てがあった家事事件に関与することができない。ただし、前項において準用する前条第五項各号に掲げる事由があるとして忌避の申立てを却下する裁判があったときは、この限りでない。 art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-13/par-2 When a motion for disqualification or a challenge to a court clerk is filed, the court clerk may not participate in the domestic relations case in which the motion is filed until a judicial decision on the motion becomes final and binding; provided, however, that this does not apply if the motion for a challenge is denied on any of the grounds set forth in the items of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a motion for disqualification or a challenge to a court clerk is filed, the court clerk may not participate in the domestic relations case pertaining to the underlying case until a judicial decision on the motion becomes final and binding; provided, however, that this does not apply if the motion for a challenge is denied on any of the grounds set forth in the items of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第三項** 裁判所書記官の除斥又は忌避についての裁判は、裁判所書記官の所属する裁判所がする。ただし、前項ただし書の裁判は、受命裁判官等（受命裁判官又は受託裁判官にあっては、当該裁判官の手続に立ち会う裁判所書記官が忌避の申立てを受けたときに限る。）がすることができる。 art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-13/par-3 A judicial decision of the disqualification or a challenge to a court clerk is to be made by the court to which the court clerk belongs; provided, however, that the judicial decision set forth in the proviso to the preceding paragraph may be made by an authorized judge, etc. (an authorized judge or commissioned judge may make such a decision only when a motion for a challenge is filed with regard to a court clerk who is to attend the proceedings handled by the judge). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-13/par-1: 第十条 → 家事事件手続法 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-10 - art-13/par-1: 第十一条 → 家事事件手続法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-11 - art-13/par-1: 前条第三項 → 家事事件手続法 第十二条第三項 (Article 12, paragraph (3)), art-12/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-12/par-3 - art-13/par-1: 第五項 → 家事事件手続法 第十二条第五項 (Article 12, paragraph (5)), art-12/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-12/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-12/par-5 - art-13/par-1: 第八項 → 家事事件手続法 第十二条第八項 (Article 12, paragraph (8)), art-12/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-12/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-12/par-8 - art-13/par-1: 第九項 → 家事事件手続法 第十二条第九項 (Article 12, paragraph (9)), art-12/par-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-12/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-12/par-9 - art-13/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-13/par-1 - art-13/par-2: 前条第五項 → 家事事件手続法 第十二条第五項 (Article 12, paragraph (5)), art-12/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-12/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-12/par-5 - art-13/par-3: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第十三条第二項 (Article 13, paragraph (2)), art-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-13/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第十二条第六項（除斥又は忌避の裁判及び手続の停止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-12/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-12/par-6 - 家事事件手続法 第十三条第二項（裁判所書記官の除斥及び忌避） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-13/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第十三条第三項（裁判所書記官の除斥及び忌避） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-13/par-3 --- ## 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 13, paragraph (2) — 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