# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第五十九条 (Article 59) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59. 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59)（家庭裁判所調査官の期日への立会い等） — address `art-59` - 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-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条（家庭裁判所調査官の期日への立会い等） — (Attendance of Family Court Investigating Officer on Dates for Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、必要があると認めるときは、家事審判の手続の期日に家庭裁判所調査官を立ち会わせることができる。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-1 A family court may, when it finds it to be necessary, have a family court investigating officer attend on a date for proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、必要があると認めるときは、前項の規定により立ち会わせた家庭裁判所調査官に意見を述べさせることができる。 art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-2 A family court may, when it finds it to be necessary, have the family court investigating officer, who attends on a date for proceedings pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, state their own opinion. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 家庭裁判所は、相当と認めるときは、当事者の意見を聴いて、家事審判の手続の期日において、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、家庭裁判所及び当事者双方が家庭裁判所調査官との間で音声の送受信により同時に通話をすることができる方法によって、家庭裁判所調査官に家事審判の手続の期日に立ち会わせ、当該期日において前項の意見を述べさせることができる。 art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-3 A family court may, when it finds it to be appropriate, after hearing the opinions of the parties, on a date for proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations, by means that enables the family court and both parties to communicate simultaneously with the family court investigating officer by audio transmissions as provided for in the Rules of the Supreme Court, have the family court investigating officer attend the date for proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations and state the opinion referred to in the preceding paragraph on that date. machine translation, not official **第四項** 家庭裁判所は、家事審判事件の処理に関し、事件の関係人の家庭環境その他の環境の調整を行うために必要があると認めるときは、家庭裁判所調査官に社会福祉機関との連絡その他の措置をとらせることができる。 art-59/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-4 When a family court, in connection with the processing of a case for adjudication of domestic relations, finds it to be necessary in order to coordinate the family environment and other environments of a person concerned with the case, it may have a family court investigating officer communicate with a social welfare organization or take other measures. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 急迫の事情があるときは、裁判長が、前項の措置をとらせることができる。 art-59/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-5 If there are pressing circumstances, the presiding judge may have a family court investigating officer take the measures set forth in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-59/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-1 - art-59/par-3: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第五十九条第二項 (Article 59, paragraph (2)), art-59/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-2 - art-59/par-5: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第五十九条第四項 (Article 59, paragraph (4)), art-59/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-4 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第五十九条第二項（家庭裁判所調査官の期日への立会い等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第五十九条第三項（家庭裁判所調査官の期日への立会い等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-3 - 家事事件手続法 第五十九条第五項（家庭裁判所調査官の期日への立会い等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-59/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-59/par-5 - 家事事件手続法 第六十条第二項（裁判所技官による診断等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-60/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第八十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-84/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 - 家事事件手続法 第二百六十一条第五項（調停委員会を組織する裁判官による事実の調査及び証拠調べ等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-261/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-261/par-5 --- ## 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-20261105T164326-002, 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