# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百二十七条 (Article 227) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-227. 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: 第二百二十七条 (Article 227)（手続行為能力） — address `art-227` - 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-227 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-227 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十七条（手続行為能力） — (Capacity to Participate in Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-227 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-227 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-227 **第一項** 第百十八条の規定は、戸籍法に規定する審判事件（別表第一の百二十二の項から百二十五の項までの事項についての審判事件をいう。）における当該審判事件の申立てをすることができる者について準用する。ただし、戸籍事件についての市町村長の処分に対する不服の審判事件においては、当該処分を受けた届出その他の行為を自らすることができる場合に限る。 art-227/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-227/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-227/par-1 The provisions of Article 118 apply mutatis mutandis to a person who may file a petition for any of the adjudication cases prescribed in the Family Register Act (meaning the adjudication cases regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, rows (122) through (125)) in the adjudication cases; provided, however, that in an adjudication case for an appeal filed against a disposition made by a mayor of municipality on a family register-related case, this only applies to a person who may themselves make a notification or perform any other act for which the disposition has been made. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of Article 118 apply mutatis mutandis to a person who may file a petition for any of the adjudication cases prescribed in the Family Register Act (meaning the adjudication cases regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, rows (122) through (125)) in the adjudication cases; provided, however, that in an adjudication case for an appeal filed against a disposition made by a mayor of municipality on a family register-related case, this only applies to a person who may make a notification or perform any other act for which the disposition has been made." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Cites - art-227/par-1: 第百十八条 → 家事事件手続法 第百十八条 (Article 118), art-118 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-118 - art-227/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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百二十六条第一項第四号（管轄） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-226/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-226/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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 227, 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 — 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