# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二百八十三条 (Article 283)

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- 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: 第二百八十三条 (Article 283)（申立人の死亡により事件が終了した場合の特則） — address `art-283`
- 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-283
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### 第二百八十三条（申立人の死亡により事件が終了した場合の特則） — (Special Provisions for the Closure of Cases upon the Death of a Petitioner)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-283 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-283 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-283</sup>

  **第一項**  父が嫡出否認についての調停の申立てをした後に死亡した場合において、当該申立てに係る子のために相続権を害される者その他父の三親等内の血族が父の死亡の日から一年以内に嫡出否認の訴えを提起したときは、父がした調停の申立ての時に、その訴えの提起があったものとみなす。
  <sup>art-283/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-283/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-283/par-1</sup>
  When a father has died after filing a petition for mediation to rebut the presumption of a child born in wedlock, and a person whose right of inheritance would be infringed by the child pertaining to the petition or another relative of the father by blood within the third degree of kinship files an action to rebut the presumption of a child born in wedlock within one year from the date of the father's death, the action is deemed to have been filed at the time of the filing of the petition for mediation by the father.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 家事事件手続法 附則第四条第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-4231-52/art-4/par-1

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## 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 — 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
