# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百四十九条 (Article 149) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-149. 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: 第百四十九条 (Article 149) — address `art-149` - 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-149 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-149 - 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. --- ### 第百四十九条 art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-149 **第一項** 失踪の宣告の取消しの審判事件は、失踪者の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-149/par-1 An adjudication case for the revocation of adjudication of declaration of presumed death is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of an absentee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百十八条の規定は、失踪の宣告の取消しの審判事件における失踪者について準用する。 art-149/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-149/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-149/par-2 The provisions of Article 118 apply mutatis mutandis to an absentee in an adjudication case for the revocation of adjudication of declaration of presumed death. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 失踪の宣告の取消しの審判は、事件の記録上失踪者の住所又は居所が判明している場合に限り、失踪者に告知すれば足りる。 art-149/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-149/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-149/par-3 Only if the domicile or residence of an absentee is known from the case record is it necessary to give notice of a ruling to revoke the adjudication of declaration of presumed death to the absentee. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the domicile or residence of an absentee is known from the case record, it is sufficient to give notice of a ruling to revoke the adjudication of declaration of presumed death to the absentee." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第四項** 次の各号に掲げる審判に対しては、当該各号に定める者は、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-149/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-149/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-149/par-4 An immediate appeal may be filed against the rulings set forth in the following items by the persons specified respectively in these items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 失踪の宣告の取消しの審判　利害関係人（申立人を除く。） art-149/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-149/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-149/par-4/item-1 a ruling to revoke the adjudication of declaration of presumed death:an interested party (excluding the petitioner); and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 失踪の宣告の取消しの申立てを却下する審判　失踪者及び利害関係人 art-149/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-149/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-149/par-4/item-2 a ruling to dismiss a petition for the revocation of an adjudication of declaration of presumed death:the absentee and an interested party. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-149/par-2: 第百十八条 → 家事事件手続法 第百十八条 (Article 118), art-118 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-118 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第三条の三第一項（失踪の宣告の取消しの審判事件の管轄権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-3/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 149, paragraph (3) — 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