# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百五十九条 (Article 159) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-159. 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: 第百五十九条 (Article 159) — address `art-159` - 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-159 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-159 - 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. --- ### 第百五十九条 art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-159 **第一項** 嫡出否認の訴えの特別代理人の選任の審判事件は、子の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-159/par-1 An adjudication case for the appointment of a special representative in an action to rebut presumption of a child born in wedlock is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a child. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百十八条の規定は、嫡出否認の訴えの特別代理人の選任の審判事件における父及び民法第七百七十四条第四項に規定する前夫について準用する。 art-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-159/par-2 The provisions of Article 118 apply mutatis mutandis to the father and the former husband prescribed in Article 774, paragraph (4) of the Civil Code in an adjudication case for the appointment of a special representative in an action to rebut presumption of a child born in wedlock. machine translation, not official **第三項** 嫡出否認の訴えの特別代理人の選任の申立てをした者は、その申立てを却下する審判に対し、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-159/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-159/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-159/par-3 A person who has filed a petition for the appointment of a special representative in an action to rebut presumption of a child born in wedlock may file an immediate appeal against a ruling to dismiss the person's petition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-159/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 - art-159/par-2: 民法第七百七十四条第四項 → 民法 第七百七十四条第四項 (Article 774, paragraph (4)), art-774/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-774/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-774/par-4 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第三条の四第一項（嫡出否認の訴えの特別代理人の選任の審判事件の管轄権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-4/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch domestic-relations-case-procedure-act-20261105T164326-003, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05