# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第四十一条 (Article 41) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-41. 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: 第四十一条 (Article 41)（当事者参加） — address `art-41` - 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-41 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-41 - 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. --- ### 第四十一条（当事者参加） — (Intervention as Party) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-41 **第一項** 当事者となる資格を有する者は、当事者として家事審判の手続に参加することができる。 art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-41/par-1 A person who is eligible to be a party may intervene in proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations as a party thereto. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、相当と認めるときは、当事者の申立てにより又は職権で、他の当事者となる資格を有する者（審判を受ける者となるべき者に限る。）を、当事者として家事審判の手続に参加させることができる。 art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-41/par-2 A family court may, when it finds it to be appropriate, and upon the petition of a party or by its own authority, have a person who is eligible to be another party (limited to a person who is to be subject to adjudication) intervene in proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定による参加の申出及び前項の申立ては、参加の趣旨及び理由を記載した書面でしなければならない。 art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-41/par-3 The application for intervention under the provisions of paragraph (1) and the petition set forth in the preceding paragraph must be filed by means of a document stating the purpose of and reasons for intervention. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項の規定による参加の申出を却下する裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-41/par-4 An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision to dismiss an application for intervention filed under the provisions of paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-41/par-3: 第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-41/par-1 - art-41/par-3: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第四十一条第二項 (Article 41, paragraph (2)), art-41/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-41/par-2 - art-41/par-4: 第一項 → 家事事件手続法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-41/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第三十一条第一項（手続費用に関する民事訴訟法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-31/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第四十一条第三項（当事者参加） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-41/par-3 - 家事事件手続法 第四十一条第四項（当事者参加） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-41/par-4 - 家事事件手続法 第四十二条第四項（利害関係参加） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-42/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-42/par-4 - 家事事件手続法 第九十三条第一項（家事審判の手続の規定及び民事訴訟法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-93/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-93/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第二百五十八条第一項（家事審判の手続の規定の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-258/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-258/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第二百六十条第一項第六号（調停委員会等の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-260/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-260/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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