# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百六十九条の三 (Article 169-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169-3. 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: 第百六十九条の三 (Article 169-3)（離婚が成立しない場合の申立ての却下） — address `art-169-3` - 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-169-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169-3 - 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. --- ### 第百六十九条の三（離婚が成立しない場合の申立ての却下） — Dismissal of Petitions if Divorce Is Not Established caption: machine translation, not official art-169-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169-3 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、親権者の指定の審判の手続において、申立人に対し、相当の期間を定め、父母が離婚したことを証する文書をその期間内に提出すべきことを命ずることができる。 art-169-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169-3/par-1 In proceedings for a ruling of the designation of a person who has parental authority, the family court may specify a reasonable period and order the petitioner to submit, within that period, a document certifying that the parents have divorced. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合において、申立人がその期間内に同項に規定する文書を提出しないときは、家庭裁判所は、親権者の指定の審判の申立てを却下することができる。 art-169-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169-3/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the petitioner does not submit the document prescribed in that paragraph within that period, the family court may dismiss the petition for a ruling of the designation of a person who has parental authority. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-169-3/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十九条の三第一項 (Article 169-3, paragraph (1)), art-169-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第百六十九条の三第二項（離婚が成立しない場合の申立ての却下） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-169-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-169-3/par-2 --- ## 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