# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百九条 (Article 209) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-209. 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: 第二百九条 (Article 209)（管轄） — address `art-209` - 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-209 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-209 - 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. --- ### 第二百九条（管轄） — (Jurisdiction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-209 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-209 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-209 **第一項** 遺言に関する審判事件（別表第一の百二の項から百八の項までの事項についての審判事件をいう。）は、相続を開始した地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-209/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-209/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-209/par-1 Adjudication cases regarding a will (meaning adjudication cases regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, rows (102) through (108)) are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place where an inheritance process has commenced. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、遺言の確認の審判事件は、遺言者の生存中は、遺言者の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-209/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-209/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-209/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an adjudication case for the confirmation of a will is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of a testator while the testator is alive. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-209/par-1: 別表第一 → 家事事件手続法 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/appdx-1 - art-209/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百九条第一項 (Article 209, paragraph (1)), art-209/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-209/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-209/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第三条の十一第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-11/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第二百九条第二項（管轄） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-209/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-209/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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05