# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百八条 (Article 208)

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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: 第二百八条 (Article 208)（管理者の改任等に関する規定の準用） — address `art-208`
- 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-208
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### 第二百八条（管理者の改任等に関する規定の準用） — (Application Mutatis Mutandis of Provisions Concerning the Replacement of an Administrator)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-208 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-208 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-208</sup>

    **第一項**  第百二十五条の規定は、相続人の不存在の場合における相続財産の清算に関する処分の審判事件について準用する。この場合において、同条第三項中「成年被後見人の財産」とあるのは、「相続財産」と読み替えるものとする。
    <sup>art-208/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-208/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-208/par-1</sup>
    The provisions of Article 125 apply mutatis mutandis to an adjudication case for a disposition regarding the liquidation of an estate in the event of the nonexistence of an heir. In this case, the phrase "property of an adult under guardianship" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "an estate".
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-208/par-1: 第百二十五条 → 家事事件手続法 第百二十五条 (Article 125), art-125 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-125 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-125
- art-208/par-1: 同条第三項 → 家事事件手続法 第百二十五条第三項 (Article 125, paragraph (3)), art-125/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-125/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-125/par-3

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 家事事件手続法 第二百五条第一項（意見の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-205/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-205/par-1
- 家事事件手続法 附則第七条第三項（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-5031-24/art-7/par-3

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## 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
