# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百六十二条 (Article 162) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-162. 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: 第百六十二条 (Article 162) — address `art-162` - 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-162 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-162 - 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. --- ### 第百六十二条 art-162 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-162 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-162 **第一項** 死後離縁をするについての許可の審判事件は、申立人の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-162/par-1 An adjudication case for permission for the dissolution of an adoptive relationship after the death of a party to an adoption is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of the petitioner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百十八条の規定は、死後離縁をするについての許可の審判事件における養親及び養子（十五歳以上のものに限る。）について準用する。 art-162/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-162/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-162/par-2 The provisions of Article 118 apply mutatis mutandis to an adoptive parent and an adopted child (limited to a person of 15 years of age or older) in an adjudication case for permission for the dissolution of an adoptive relationship after the death of a party to an adoption. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 家庭裁判所は、養子の死後に死後離縁をするについての許可の申立てがあった場合には、申立てが不適法であるとき又は申立てに理由がないことが明らかなときを除き、養子を代襲して養親の相続人となるべき者に対し、その旨を通知するものとする。ただし、事件の記録上その者の氏名及び住所又は居所が判明している場合に限る。 art-162/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-162/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-162/par-3 When a petition for permission for the dissolution of an adoptive relationship after the death of a party to an adoption is filed after an adopted child has died, the family court is to give notice to that effect to a person who is to be the heir of the adoptive parent as an heir per stirpes of the adopted child, except when the petition is unlawful or the petition is clearly groundless; provided, however, that this is required only when the name and domicile or residence of that person is known from the case record. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **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-162/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-162/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-162/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** 死後離縁をするについての許可の審判　利害関係人（申立人を除く。） art-162/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-162/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-162/par-4/item-1 a ruling for permission for the dissolution of an adoptive relationship after the death of a party to an adoption:an interested party (excluding the petitioner); and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 死後離縁をするについての許可の申立てを却下する審判　申立人 art-162/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-162/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-162/par-4/item-2 a ruling to dismiss a petition for permission for the dissolution of an adoptive relationship after the death of a party to an adoption:the petitioner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-162/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 第三条の六第一項（死後離縁をするについての許可の審判事件の管轄権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-6/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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05