# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百六十五条 (Article 265) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-265. 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: 第二百六十五条 (Article 265)（調停の場所） — address `art-265` - 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-265 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-265 - 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. --- ### 第二百六十五条（調停の場所） — (Place of Mediation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Place of Conciliation)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb art-265 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-265 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-265 **第一項** 調停委員会は、事件の実情を考慮して、裁判所外の適当な場所で調停を行うことができる。 art-265/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-265/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-265/par-1 A mediation committee may mediate a case at an appropriate place outside a court, in consideration of the circumstances of the case. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A conciliation committee may conciliate a case at an appropriate place outside a court, in consideration of the circumstances of the case." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第二百六十七条第二項（裁判官のみで行う家事調停の手続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-267/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-267/par-2 --- ## 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 265 — 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 265, 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