# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第三条の四 (Article 3-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-4. 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: 第三条の四 (Article 3-4)（嫡出否認の訴えの特別代理人の選任の審判事件の管轄権） — address `art-3-4` - 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-3-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-4 - 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. --- ### 第三条の四（嫡出否認の訴えの特別代理人の選任の審判事件の管轄権） — (Jurisdiction over Adjudication Cases for the Appointment of a Special Representative in an Action to Rebut Presumption of Child Born in Wedlock) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-4 **第一項** 裁判所は、嫡出否認の訴えについて日本の裁判所が管轄権を有するときは、嫡出否認の訴えの特別代理人の選任の審判事件（別表第一の五十九の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。第百五十九条第一項及び第二項において同じ。）について、管轄権を有する。 art-3-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-4/par-1 The court has jurisdiction over an adjudication case for the appointment of a special representative in an action to rebut presumption of a child born in wedlock (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (59); the same applies in Article 159, paragraphs (1) and (2)) if a Japanese court has jurisdiction over the action to rebut presumption of a child born in wedlock. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-3-4/par-1: 第百五十九条第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第百五十九条第一項 (Article 159, paragraph (1)), art-159/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-159/par-1 - art-3-4/par-1: 第二項 → 家事事件手続法 第百五十九条第二項 (Article 159, paragraph (2)), art-159/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-159/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第三条の十四第一項（特別の事情による申立ての却下） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-14/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 附則第三条第一項（家事事件手続法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/suppl-4301-20/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/suppl-4301-20/art-3/par-1 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05