# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百六十九条の二 (Article 169-2)

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- 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: 第百六十九条の二 (Article 169-2)（申立ての取下げの制限） — address `art-169-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
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### 第百六十九条の二（申立ての取下げの制限） — Restrictions on the Withdrawal of Petitions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-169-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169-2</sup>

    **第一項**  親権者の指定の申立ては、審判がされる前であっても、家庭裁判所の許可を得なければ、取り下げることができない。
    <sup>art-169-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169-2/par-1</sup>
    A petition for the designation of a person who has parental authority may not be withdrawn without permission from the family court, even before a ruling is made.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261105T164326-004, 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