# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百七十条 (Article 170)

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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: 第百七十条 (Article 170)（審判の告知） — address `art-170`
- 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-170
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-170
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### 第百七十条（審判の告知） — (Notice of a Ruling)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-170 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-170 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-170</sup>

    **第一項**  次の各号に掲げる審判は、第七十四条第一項に規定する者のほか、当該各号に定める者に告知しなければならない。ただし、子にあっては、子の年齢及び発達の程度その他一切の事情を考慮して子の利益を害すると認める場合は、この限りでない。
    <sup>art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-170/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-170/par-1</sup>
    Notice of the rulings set forth in the following items must be given to the persons specified respectively in these items, beyond the persons prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (1); provided, however, that this does not apply when the family court finds that the notice would harm the interest of a child in consideration of the child's age, degree of development, and all other circumstances:
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Notice of the rulings set forth in the following items must be given to the persons specified respectively in these items, beyond the persons prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (1):provided, however, that this does not apply when the family court finds that the notice would harm the interest of a child in consideration of the child's age, degree of development, and all other circumstances:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb</sup>

      **一**  親権喪失、親権停止又は管理権喪失の審判　子
      <sup>art-170/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-170/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-170/par-1/item-1</sup>
      a ruling of the loss of parental authority, suspension of parental authority or loss of right to manage assets:the child; and
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **二**  親権喪失、親権停止又は管理権喪失の審判の取消しの審判　子、子に対し親権を行う者及び子の未成年後見人
      <sup>art-170/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-170/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-170/par-1/item-2</sup>
      a ruling to revoke a ruling of the loss of parental authority, suspension of parental authority or loss of right to manage assets:the child, the person who exercises parental authority over the child, and a guardian of a minor.
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-170/par-1: 第七十四条第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第七十四条第一項 (Article 74, paragraph (1)), art-74/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-74/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 家事事件手続法 第二百四十二条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-242/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-242/par-3

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## 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 170, paragraph (1) — 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
