# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百九十一条 (Article 191) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-191. 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: 第百九十一条 (Article 191)（管轄） — address `art-191` - 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-191 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-191 - 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. --- ### 第百九十一条（管轄） — (Jurisdiction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-191 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-191 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-191 **第一項** 遺産の分割に関する審判事件は、相続が開始した地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-191/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-191/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-191/par-1 Adjudication cases regarding the division of an estate are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place where the inheritance process has commenced. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Adjudication cases regarding the division of an estate is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place where inheritance process has commenced." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、遺産の分割の審判事件（別表第二の十二の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。以下同じ。）が係属している場合における寄与分を定める処分の審判事件（同表の十四の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。次条において同じ。）は、当該遺産の分割の審判事件が係属している裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-191/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-191/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-191/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, where an adjudication case for the division of an estate (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (12); the same applies hereinafter) is pending before a court, an adjudication case for a disposition to determine an heir's amount of contribution (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (14); the same applies in the following Article) is subject to the jurisdiction of the court before which the adjudication case for the division of an estate is pending. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, where an adjudication case for the division of an estate (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (12); the same applies hereinafter) is pending before a court, an adjudication case for a disposition to determine an heir's amount of contribution (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2, row (14): the same applies in the following Article) is subject to the jurisdiction of the court before which the adjudication case for the division of an estate is pending." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Cites - art-191/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第百九十一条第一項 (Article 191, paragraph (1)), art-191/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-191/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-191/par-1 - art-191/par-2: 次条 → 家事事件手続法 第百九十二条 (Article 192), art-192 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-192 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-192 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第三条の十一第四項（相続に関する審判事件の管轄権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-11/par-4 - 家事事件手続法 第百九十一条第二項（管轄） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-191/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-191/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第二百四十五条第三項（管轄等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-245/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-245/par-3 - 家事事件手続法 附則第五条第三項（民法附則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/suppl-4231-52/art-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-4231-52/art-5/par-3 --- ## 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 191, 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 (家事事件手続法), Article 191, 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