# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百四条 (Article 204) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-204. 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: 第二百四条 (Article 204)（特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与の審判） — address `art-204` - 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-204 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-204 - 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. --- ### 第二百四条（特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与の審判） — (Ruling of Distribution of an Estate to Persons with Special Connections) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-204 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-204 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-204 **第一項** 特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与の申立てについての審判は、民法第九百五十二条第二項の期間の満了後三月を経過した後にしなければならない。 art-204/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-204/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-204/par-1 A ruling on a petition for the distribution of an estate to a person with a special connection must be made after three months have passed from the date of expiration of the period set forth in Article 952, paragraph (2) of the Civil Code. machine translation, not official **第二項** 同一の相続財産に関し特別縁故者に対する相続財産の分与の審判事件が数個同時に係属するときは、これらの審判の手続及び審判は、併合してしなければならない。 art-204/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-204/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-204/par-2 When two or more adjudication cases for the distribution of an estate to persons with special connections are pending simultaneously with regard to the same estate, those proceedings and rulings must be consolidated. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-204/par-1: 民法第九百五十二条第二項 → 民法 第九百五十二条第二項 (Article 952, paragraph (2)), art-952/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-952/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-952/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百三条第一項第三号（管轄） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-203/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-203/par-1/item-3 - 家事事件手続法 第二百六条第二項（即時抗告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-206/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-206/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 附則第七条第二項（家事事件手続法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/suppl-5031-24/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-5031-24/art-7/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-20261105T162515-005, 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