# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第百九十七条 (Article 197) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-197. 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: 第百九十七条 (Article 197)（遺産の分割の禁止の審判の取消し及び変更） — address `art-197` - 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-197 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-197 - 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. --- ### 第百九十七条（遺産の分割の禁止の審判の取消し及び変更） — (Revocation and Modification of Rulings of the Prohibition of the Division of Estates) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-197 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-197 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-197 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、事情の変更があるときは、相続人の申立てにより、いつでも、遺産の分割の禁止の審判を取り消し、又は変更する審判をすることができる。この申立てに係る審判事件は、別表第二に掲げる事項についての審判事件とみなす。 art-197/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-197/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-197/par-1 A family court may, upon the petition of an heir, revoke a ruling of prohibition of the division of an estate or make a ruling to modify the ruling at any time if the circumstances have changed. An adjudication case based on this petition is deemed to be an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 2. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-197/par-1: 別表第二 → 家事事件手続法 別表第二 (Appended Table 2), appdx-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/appdx-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05