# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百七十五条 (Article 275) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-275. 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: 第二百七十五条 (Article 275)（訴訟手続及び家事審判の手続の中止） — address `art-275` - 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-275 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-275 - 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. --- ### 第二百七十五条（訴訟手続及び家事審判の手続の中止） — (Suspension of Litigation Proceedings and Proceedings for Adjudication of Domestic Relations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-275 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-275 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-275 **第一項** 家事調停の申立てがあった事件について訴訟が係属しているとき、又は訴訟が係属している裁判所が第二百五十七条第二項若しくは前条第一項の規定により事件を調停に付したときは、訴訟が係属している裁判所は、家事調停事件が終了するまで訴訟手続を中止することができる。 art-275/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-275/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-275/par-1 When a suit is pending with regard to a case for which a petition for mediation of domestic relations is filed, or a court before which a suit is pending refers the case to mediation pursuant to provisions of Article 257, paragraph (2) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the court before which the suit is pending may suspend litigation proceedings until a case for mediation of domestic relations is closed. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a suit is pending with regard to a case for which a petition for conciliation of domestic relations is filed, or a court before which a suit is pending refers the case to conciliation pursuant to provisions of Article 257, paragraph (2) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the court before which the suit is pending may suspend litigation proceedings until a case for conciliation of domestic relations is closed." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第二項** 家事調停の申立てがあった事件について家事審判事件が係属しているとき、又は家事審判事件が係属している裁判所が前条第一項の規定により事件を調停に付したときは、家事審判事件が係属している裁判所は、家事調停事件が終了するまで、家事審判の手続を中止することができる。 art-275/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-275/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-275/par-2 When a case for adjudication of domestic relations is pending with regard to a case for which a petition for mediation of domestic relations is filed, or a court before which a case for adjudication of domestic relations is pending refers the case to mediation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the court before which the case for adjudication of domestic relations is pending may suspend proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations until a case for mediation of domestic relations is closed. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a case for adjudication of domestic relations is pending with regard to a case for which a petition for conciliation of domestic relations is filed, or a court before which a case for adjudication of domestic relations is pending refers the case to conciliation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the court before which the case for adjudication of domestic relations is pending may suspend proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations until a case for conciliation of domestic relations is closed." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb --- ## Cites - art-275/par-1: 第二百五十七条第二項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百五十七条第二項 (Article 257, paragraph (2)), art-257/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-257/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-257/par-2 - art-275/par-1: 前条第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百七十四条第一項 (Article 274, paragraph (1)), art-274/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-274/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-274/par-1 - art-275/par-2: 前条第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百七十四条第一項 (Article 274, paragraph (1)), art-274/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-274/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-274/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 附則第四条第二項（訴訟に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/suppl-4231-52/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-4231-52/art-4/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 275, 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 (家事事件手続法), Article 275, paragraph (2) — 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