# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第三条の八 (Article 3-8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-8. 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: 第三条の八 (Article 3-8)（親権に関する審判事件等の管轄権） — address `art-3-8` - 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-3-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-8 - 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. --- ### 第三条の八（親権に関する審判事件等の管轄権） — (Jurisdiction over Adjudication Cases Regarding Parental Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-8 **第一項** 裁判所は、親権に関する審判事件（別表第一の六十五の項から六十九の項まで及び別表第二の七の項から八の二の項までの事項についての審判事件をいう。第百六十七条において同じ。）、子の監護に関する処分の審判事件（同表の三の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。以下同じ。）（子の監護に要する費用の分担に関する処分の審判事件を除く。）及び親権を行う者につき破産手続が開始された場合における管理権喪失の審判事件（別表第一の百三十二の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。第二百四十二条第一項第二号及び第三項において同じ。）について、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は、管轄権を有する。 art-3-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-3-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-3-8/par-1 The court has jurisdiction over an adjudication case regarding parental authority (meaning adjudication cases regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, rows (65) through (69) and in Appended Table 2, rows (7) through (8-2); the same applies in Article 167), an adjudication case for a disposition regarding the custody of a child (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in row (3) of that table; hereinafter the same applies) (excluding an adjudication case for a disposition regarding the sharing of expenses required for the custody of a child), and an adjudication case for the loss of the right to manage assets upon the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings against a person who exercises parental authority (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (132); the same applies in Article 242, paragraph (1), item (ii) and paragraph (3)) if the child is domiciled in Japan (or resides in Japan if the child has no domicile or the child's domicile is unknown). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-3-8/par-1: 第百六十七条 → 家事事件手続法 第百六十七条 (Article 167), art-167 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-167 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-167 - art-3-8/par-1: 別表第一 → 家事事件手続法 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/appdx-1 - art-3-8/par-1: 第二百四十二条第一項第二号 → 家事事件手続法 第二百四十二条第一項第二号 (Article 242, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-242/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-242/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-242/par-1/item-2 - art-3-8/par-1: 第三項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百四十二条第三項 (Article 242, paragraph (3)), art-242/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-242/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-242/par-3 ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch domestic-relations-case-procedure-act-20261105T164326-001, 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