# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第三条の七 (Article 3-7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-7. 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: 第三条の七 (Article 3-7)（特別養子縁組の離縁の審判事件の管轄権） — address `art-3-7` - 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-3-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-7 - 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. --- ### 第三条の七（特別養子縁組の離縁の審判事件の管轄権） — (Jurisdiction over Adjudication Cases for the Dissolution of Special Adoptions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-7 **第一項** 裁判所は、特別養子縁組の離縁の審判事件（別表第一の六十四の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。以下同じ。）について、次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、管轄権を有する。 art-3-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-7/par-1 The court has jurisdiction over an adjudication case for the dissolution of a special adoption (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (64); the same applies hereinafter) if the case falls under any of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 養親の住所（住所がない場合又は住所が知れない場合には、居所）が日本国内にあるとき。 art-3-7/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-7/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-7/par-1/item-1 the adoptive parents are domiciled in Japan (or reside in Japan if they are without a domicile or of domicile unknown); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 養子の実父母又は検察官からの申立てであって、養子の住所（住所がない場合又は住所が知れない場合には、居所）が日本国内にあるとき。 art-3-7/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-7/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-7/par-1/item-2 the case is based on the petition of the natural parents of the adopted child or a public prosecutor, and the adopted child is domiciled in Japan (or resides in Japan if the child has no domicile or the child's domicile is unknown); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 養親及び養子が日本の国籍を有するとき。 art-3-7/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-7/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-7/par-1/item-3 the adoptive parents and the adopted child have Japanese nationality; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 日本国内に住所がある養子からの申立てであって、養親及び養子が最後の共通の住所を日本国内に有していたとき。 art-3-7/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-7/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-7/par-1/item-4 the case is based on the petition of the adopted child who is domiciled in Japan, and the adoptive parents and the adopted child were last domiciled together in Japan; or Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the case is based on the petition of the adopted child who is domiciled in Japan, and the adopted parents and the adopted child were last domiciled together in Japan; or" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **五** 日本国内に住所がある養子からの申立てであって、養親が行方不明であるとき、養親の住所がある国においてされた離縁に係る確定した裁判が日本国で効力を有しないときその他の日本の裁判所が審理及び裁判をすることが養親と養子との間の衡平を図り、又は適正かつ迅速な審理の実現を確保することとなる特別の事情があると認められるとき。 art-3-7/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-7/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-7/par-1/item-5 the case is based on the petition of the adopted child who is domiciled in Japan and the adoptive parents' whereabouts are unknown, or when the final and binding decision in an adoption dissolution action obtained in the country where the adoptive parents were domiciled has no legal effect in Japan, or the existence of special circumstances are acknowledged for having other courts in Japan undertake to examine or litigate so as to maintain an equitable balance between the adoptive parents and the adopted child or to achieve securing appropriate and swift proceedings. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 - 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 3-7, paragraph (1), item (iv) — 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