# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第三十二条 (Article 32) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-32. 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: 第三十二条 (Article 32) — address `art-32` - 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-32 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-32 - 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. --- ### 第三十二条 art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-32 **第一項** 家事事件の手続の準備及び追行に必要な費用を支払う資力がない者又はその支払により生活に著しい支障を生ずる者に対しては、裁判所は、申立てにより、手続上の救助の裁判をすることができる。ただし、救助を求める者が不当な目的で家事審判又は家事調停の申立てその他の手続行為をしていることが明らかなときは、この限りでない。 art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-32/par-1 For a person who lacks the financial resources to pay the costs necessary to prepare for and undertake a domestic relations case or for a person who will suffer substantial detriment to their standard of living by paying the costs, the court may, upon petition, make a judicial decision to grant judicial aid to the person; provided, however, that this does not apply where it is clear that a person who seeks aid files a petition for adjudication of domestic relations or mediation of domestic relations or performs any other procedural acts for unjust purposes. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "For a person who lacks the financial resources to pay the costs necessary to prepare for and undertake a domestic relations case or for a person who will suffer substantial detriment to their standard of living by paying the costs, the court may, upon petition, make a judicial decision to grant judicial aid to the person; provided, however, that this does not apply where it is clear that a person who seeks aid files a petition for adjudication of domestic relations or conciliation of domestic relations or performs any other procedural acts for unjust purposes." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第二項** 民事訴訟法第八十二条第二項及び第八十三条から第八十六条まで（同法第八十三条第一項第三号を除く。）の規定は、手続上の救助について準用する。この場合において、同法第八十四条中「第八十二条第一項本文」とあるのは、「家事事件手続法第三十二条第一項本文」と読み替えるものとする。 art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-32/par-2 The provisions of Article 82, paragraph (2), and Articles 83 through 86 of the Code of Civil Procedure (excluding Article 83, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Code) apply mutatis mutandis to procedural aid. In this case, the phrase "main clause of Article 82, paragraph (1)" in Article 84 of the Code is deemed to be replaced with "main clause of Article 32, paragraph (1) of the Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-32/par-2: 民事訴訟法第八十二条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第八十二条第二項 (Article 82, paragraph (2)), art-82/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-82/par-2 - art-32/par-2: 第八十三条から第八十六条まで → 民事訴訟法 第八十三条 (Article 83), art-83 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-83 - art-32/par-2: 第八十三条から第八十六条まで → 民事訴訟法 第八十四条 (Article 84), art-84 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-84 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-84 - art-32/par-2: 第八十三条から第八十六条まで → 民事訴訟法 第八十五条 (Article 85), art-85 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-85 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-85 - art-32/par-2: 第八十三条から第八十六条まで → 民事訴訟法 第八十六条 (Article 86), art-86 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-86 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-86 - art-32/par-2: 同法第八十三条第一項第三号 → 民事訴訟法 第八十三条第一項第三号 (Article 83, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-83/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-83/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-83/par-1/item-3 - art-32/par-2: 第八十二条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第八十二条第一項 (Article 82, paragraph (1)), art-82/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-82/par-1 - art-32/par-2: 家事事件手続法第三十二条第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-32/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第三十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-32/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 32, 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 — 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