# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第六十五条 (Article 65) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-65. 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: 第六十五条 (Article 65) — address `art-65` - 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-65 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-65 - 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. --- ### 第六十五条 art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-65 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、親子、親権又は未成年後見に関する家事審判その他未成年者である子（未成年被後見人を含む。以下この条において同じ。）がその結果により影響を受ける家事審判の手続においては、子の陳述の聴取、家庭裁判所調査官による調査その他の適切な方法により、子の意思を把握するように努め、審判をするに当たり、子の年齢及び発達の程度に応じて、その意思を考慮しなければならない。 art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-65/par-1 In proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations regarding a parent and child, parental authority or guardianship of a minor, or in proceedings for adjudication of domestic relations, the outcome of which would affect a minor (including a minor ward; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), the family court must try to understand the intentions of the child by hearing statements from the child, having a family court investigating officer conduct an examination or using any other appropriate methods, and to take the child's intentions into consideration in adjudicating the case, according to the child's age or degree of development. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-65/par-1: この条 → 家事事件手続法 第六十五条 (Article 65), art-65 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-65 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第六十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-65/par-1 - 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 --- ## 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