# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百六十一条 (Article 261) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261. 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: 第二百六十一条 (Article 261)（調停委員会を組織する裁判官による事実の調査及び証拠調べ等） — address `art-261` - 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-261 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百六十一条（調停委員会を組織する裁判官による事実の調査及び証拠調べ等） — (Investigation of Facts and Examination of Evidence by a Judge Who Composes Mediation Committee) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Investigation of Facts and Examination of Evidence by a Judge Who Composes Conciliation Committee)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb art-261 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261 **第一項** 調停委員会を組織する裁判官は、当該調停委員会の決議により、事実の調査及び証拠調べをすることができる。 art-261/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-1 A judge who composes a mediation committee may, by a resolution of the mediation committee, investigate facts and examine evidence. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A judge who composes a conciliation committee may, by a resolution of the conciliation committee, investigate facts and evidence." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第二項** 前項の場合には、裁判官は、家庭裁判所調査官に事実の調査をさせ、又は医師である裁判所技官に事件の関係人の心身の状況について診断をさせることができる。 art-261/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, a judge may have a family court investigating officer examine facts or a technical official of the court who is a physician diagnose the physical and mental condition of a person concerned with a case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第五十八条第三項及び第四項の規定は、前項の規定による事実の調査及び心身の状況についての診断について準用する。 art-261/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-3 The provisions of Article 58, paragraphs (3) and (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the investigation of facts and the diagnosis of the physical and mental condition of the person under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項の場合には、裁判官は、相当と認めるときは、裁判所書記官に事実の調査をさせることができる。ただし、家庭裁判所調査官に事実の調査をさせることを相当と認めるときは、この限りでない。 art-261/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-4 In the case referred to in paragraph (1), a judge may, when the judge finds it to be appropriate, have a court clerk investigate facts; provided, however, that this does not apply when the judge finds it to be appropriate to have a family court investigating officer examine facts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 調停委員会を組織する裁判官は、当該調停委員会の決議により、家庭裁判所調査官に第五十九条第四項の規定による措置をとらせることができる。 art-261/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-5 A judge who composes a mediation committee may, by a resolution of the mediation committee, have a family court investigating officer take the measures under the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (4). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-261/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百六十一条第一項 (Article 261, paragraph (1)), art-261/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-1 - art-261/par-3: 第五十八条第三項 → 家事事件手続法 第五十八条第三項 (Article 58, paragraph (3)), art-58/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-58/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-58/par-3 - art-261/par-3: 第四項 → 家事事件手続法 第五十八条第四項 (Article 58, paragraph (4)), art-58/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-58/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-58/par-4 - art-261/par-3: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百六十一条第二項 (Article 261, paragraph (2)), art-261/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-2 - art-261/par-4: 第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百六十一条第一項 (Article 261, paragraph (1)), art-261/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-1 - art-261/par-5: 第五十九条第四項 → 家事事件手続法 第五十九条第四項 (Article 59, paragraph (4)), art-59/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-4 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百六十一条第二項（調停委員会を組織する裁判官による事実の調査及び証拠調べ等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第二百六十一条第三項（調停委員会を組織する裁判官による事実の調査及び証拠調べ等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-3 - 家事事件手続法 第二百六十一条第四項（調停委員会を組織する裁判官による事実の調査及び証拠調べ等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-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 261 — 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 (家事事件手続法), Article 261, 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 - 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