# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第八十八条 (Article 88) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-88. 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: 第八十八条 (Article 88)（抗告状の写しの送付等） — address `art-88` - 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-88 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-88 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八十八条（抗告状の写しの送付等） — (Sending of Copy of Written Petition for Appeal) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-88 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-88 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-88 **第一項** 審判に対する即時抗告があった場合には、抗告裁判所は、即時抗告が不適法であるとき又は即時抗告に理由がないことが明らかなときを除き、原審における当事者及び利害関係参加人（抗告人を除く。）に対し、抗告状の写しを送付しなければならない。ただし、抗告審における手続の円滑な進行を妨げるおそれがあると認められる場合には、即時抗告があったことを通知することをもって、抗告状の写しの送付に代えることができる。 art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-88/par-1 When an immediate appeal is filed against a ruling, the court in charge of the appeal must send a copy of a petition for appeal to the party and interested party intervenor in the prior instance (excluding the appellant), except when the immediate appeal is unlawful or the immediate appeal is clearly groundless; provided, however, that if it is found that there is a risk of interfering with the smooth progress of proceedings in the instance of an appeal, the court in charge of the appeal may give notice to those parties of the fact that an immediate appeal is filed, in lieu of sending a copy of a petition for appeal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判長は、前項の規定による抗告状の写しの送付又はこれに代わる通知の費用の予納を相当の期間を定めて抗告人に命じた場合において、その予納がないときは、命令で、抗告状を却下しなければならない。 art-88/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-88/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-88/par-2 When the presiding judge specifies a reasonable period and orders an appellant to prepay costs for sending a copy of a petition for appeal or giving notice in lieu of sending the copy under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, but the costs are not prepaid, the presiding judge must, by a direction, dismiss the petition for appeal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-88/par-2: 前項 → 家事事件手続法 第八十八条第一項 (Article 88, paragraph (1)), art-88/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-88/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第八十八条第二項（抗告状の写しの送付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-88/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-88/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第九十三条第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-93/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第九十六条第一項（即時抗告の規定及び民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-96/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第九十八条第一項（即時抗告等の規定及び民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-98/par-1 - 家事事件手続法 第百二条第一項（審判に対する不服申立ての規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-102/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