# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第七十三条 (Article 73) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-73. 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: 第七十三条 (Article 73)（審判） — address `art-73` - 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-73 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-73 - 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. --- ### 第七十三条（審判） — (Rulings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-73 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、家事審判事件が裁判をするのに熟したときは、審判をする。 art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-73/par-1 When a case for adjudication of domestic relations is ready for making a judicial decision, the family court makes a ruling. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a case for adjudication of domestic relations is ready for making a judicial decision, the family court make a ruling." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第二項** 家庭裁判所は、家事審判事件の一部が裁判をするのに熟したときは、その一部について審判をすることができる。手続の併合を命じた数個の家事審判事件中その一が裁判をするのに熟したときも、同様とする。 art-73/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-73/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-73/par-2 When part of a case for adjudication of domestic relations is ready for making a judicial decision, the family court may make a ruling for the part of the case. The same applies when one of the cases for adjudication of domestic relations for which consolidation of proceedings has been ordered is ready for making a judicial decision. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第八十一条第一項（審判以外の裁判） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-81/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 - 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 73, 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