# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百六十六条 (Article 166) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166. 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: 第百六十六条 (Article 166)（特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件等を本案とする保全処分） — address `art-166` - 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-166 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百六十六条（特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件等を本案とする保全処分） — (Provisional Order during a Case on the Merits to Adjudicate the Establishment of Special Adoption) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-166 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166 **第一項** 家庭裁判所（第百五条第二項の場合にあっては、高等裁判所。第三項及び第四項において同じ。）は、特別養子縁組の成立の申立てがあった場合において、養子となるべき者の利益のため必要があるときは、当該申立てをした者の申立てにより、特別養子縁組の成立の申立てについての審判が効力を生ずるまでの間、申立人を養子となるべき者の監護者に選任し、又は養子となるべき者の親権者若しくは未成年後見人の職務の執行を停止し、若しくはその職務代行者を選任することができる。 art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-1 When a petition for the establishment of a special adoption is filed, and when it is necessary for the interests of a person who is to be adopted, the family court (or a high court in the case set forth in Article 105, paragraph (2); the same applies in paragraphs (3) and (4)) may, upon the petition of the person who has filed the petition, appoint the petitioner as a person who has custody of the person who is to be adopted or suspend the performance of duties by the person who has parental authority over the person who is to be adopted or by a guardian of the minor who is to be adopted or appoint a person acting as the representative thereof, until a ruling on the petition for the establishment of a special adoption becomes effective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による職務の執行を停止する審判は、職務の執行を停止される親権者若しくは未成年後見人、養子となるべき者に対し親権を行う者若しくは他の未成年後見人又は同項の規定により選任した職務代行者に告知することによって、その効力を生ずる。 art-166/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-2 A ruling to suspend the performance of duties under the provisions of the preceding paragraph becomes effective when notice thereof is given to the person who has parental authority or a guardian of a minor who is to be suspended from performing duties, the person who exercises parental authority over the person who is to be adopted or any other guardian of the minor who is to be adopted, or a person acting as a representative appointed pursuant to the provisions of the paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A ruling to suspend the performance of duties under the provisions of the preceding paragraph become effective when notice thereof is given to the person who has parental authority or a guardian of a minor who is to be suspended from performing duties, the person who exercises parental authority over the person who is to be adopted or any other guardian of the minor who is to be adopted, or a person acting as a representative appointed pursuant to the provisions of the paragraph." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第三項** 家庭裁判所は、いつでも、第一項の規定により選任した職務代行者を改任することができる。 art-166/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-3 A family court may, at any time, replace a person acting as a representative appointed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), with another. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 家庭裁判所は、第一項の規定により選任し、又は前項の規定により改任した職務代行者に対し、養子となるべき者の財産の中から、相当な報酬を与えることができる。 art-166/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-4 A family court may grant a reasonable remuneration to a person acting as a representative appointed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or a person acting as a representative appointed as a replacement pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, out of the property of the person who is to be adopted. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 前各項の規定（養子となるべき者の監護者を選任する保全処分に関する部分を除く。）は、特別養子縁組の離縁の審判事件を本案とする保全処分について準用する。 art-166/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-5 The provisions of the preceding paragraphs (excluding the parts concerning a provisional order for the appointment of a person who has custody of a person who is to be adopted) apply mutatis mutandis to a provisional order sought by designating an adjudication case for the dissolution of a special adoption as a case on the merits. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-166/par-1: 第百五条第二項 → 家事事件手続法 第百五条第二項 (Article 105, paragraph (2)), art-105/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-105/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-105/par-2 - art-166/par-1: 第三項 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第三項 (Article 166, paragraph (3)), art-166/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-3 - art-166/par-1: 第四項 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第四項 (Article 166, paragraph (4)), art-166/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-4 - art-166/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第一項 (Article 166, paragraph (1)), art-166/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-1 - art-166/par-3: 第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第一項 (Article 166, paragraph (1)), art-166/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-1 - art-166/par-4: 第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第一項 (Article 166, paragraph (1)), art-166/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-1 - art-166/par-4: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第三項 (Article 166, paragraph (3)), art-166/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-3 - art-166/par-5: 前各項 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第一項 (Article 166, paragraph (1)), art-166/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-1 - art-166/par-5: 前各項 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第二項 (Article 166, paragraph (2)), art-166/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-2 - art-166/par-5: 前各項 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第三項 (Article 166, paragraph (3)), art-166/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-3 - art-166/par-5: 前各項 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第四項 (Article 166, paragraph (4)), art-166/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-4 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第百十条第一項第二号（即時抗告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-110/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-110/par-1/item-2 - 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第一項（特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件等を本案とする保全処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第二項（特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件等を本案とする保全処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第三項（特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件等を本案とする保全処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-3 - 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第四項（特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件等を本案とする保全処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-4 - 家事事件手続法 第百六十六条第五項（特別養子縁組の成立の審判事件等を本案とする保全処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-166/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-166/par-5 --- ## 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 166, 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