# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百五十五条 (Article 155) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-155. 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: 第百五十五条 (Article 155)（共有財産の分割） — address `art-155` - 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-155 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-155 - 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. --- ### 第百五十五条（共有財産の分割） — (Division of Property in Joint Ownership) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-155 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、夫婦財産契約による財産の管理者の変更の審判とともに共有財産の分割に関する処分の審判をする場合において、特別の事情があると認めるときは、共有財産の分割の方法として、一方の婚姻の当事者に他方の婚姻の当事者に対する債務を負担させて、現物の分割に代えることができる。 art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-155/par-1 When a family court makes a ruling on the division of property in joint ownership upon making a ruling of the change of an administrator of property under a prenuptial agreement, and when it finds that there are special circumstances, it may, as a method of dividing the property in joint ownership, have one of the parties to the marriage assume an obligation to the other party to the marriage, in lieu of dividing the property. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百四十二条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-242/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-242/par-3 --- ## 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