# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百二十九条 (Article 229) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-229. 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: 第二百二十九条 (Article 229)（陳述及び意見の聴取） — address `art-229` - 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-229 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-229 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十九条（陳述及び意見の聴取） — (Hearings of Statements and Opinions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-229 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-229 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-229 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、氏又は氏の振り仮名の変更についての許可の審判をする場合には、申立人と同一戸籍内にある者（十五歳以上のものに限る。）の陳述を聴かなければならない。 art-229/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-229/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-229/par-1 When making a ruling of permission for the change of a surname or the kana reading of a surname, the family court must hear statements from a person (limited to a person of 15 years of age or older) who is in the same family register as the petitioner. machine translation, not official **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、戸籍事件についての市町村長（特別区の区長を含むものとし、地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市にあっては、区長又は総合区長とする。以下この節において同じ。）の処分に対する不服の申立てがあった場合には、当該市町村長の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-229/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-229/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-229/par-2 When an appeal is filed against a disposition made by a mayor of a municipality (including a special ward mayor; with respect to a designated city set forth in Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947), a ward mayor or administratively consolidated ward mayor; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) on a family register-related case, the family court must hear the opinion of the mayor of the municipality. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-229/par-2: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十九第一項 (Article 252-19, paragraph (1)), art-252-19/par-1 — not held in this collection --- ## 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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, 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