# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第五条 (Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（優先管轄） — address `art-5` - 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-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（優先管轄） — (Preferential Jurisdiction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-5 **第一項** この法律の他の規定により二以上の家庭裁判所が管轄権を有するときは、家事事件は、先に申立てを受け、又は職権で手続を開始した家庭裁判所が管轄する。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-5/par-1 If two or more family courts have jurisdiction over a domestic relations case pursuant to other provisions of this Act, the domestic relations case is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court that first received a petition or commenced proceedings by its own authority. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If two or more family courts have jurisdiction over a domestic relations case pursuant to other provisions of this Act, the domestic relations case is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court that first received a petition or commenced proceedings by its own authority ." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第九条第二項第一号（移送等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-9/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-9/par-2/item-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 5, 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