# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第四章 (Chapter 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/ch-4. 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: 人事訴訟法 (Personal Status Litigation Act), 平成十五年法律第百九号 - English title "Personal Status Litigation 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: 第四章 (Chapter 4) — address `ch-4` - Text: the text as amended with effect from 2028-12-23 (The date on which the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 45 of 2026) comes into force. The exact day is not fixed yet.) — NOT yet in force (revision 20281223_508AC0000000046) - URL (this text's page, at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/ch-4 - The same address in the text in force (its wording there may differ): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/ch-4 - Every provision below carries its address and its place on this text's page 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. The Ministry's English is given only where this text's Japanese is a wording the Ministry translated — the same as the text in force, or for a text not yet in force, a wording it translated ahead; every other paragraph's English is machine translation. --- ## 第四章　養子縁組関係訴訟の特例 — Chapter IV Special Provisions for Litigation Involving Adoptive Relationships heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ch-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/ch-4 ### 第四十六条 art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/ch-4#art-46 **第一項** 第三十七条（第一項ただし書を除く。）の規定は、離縁の訴えに係る訴訟における和解（これにより離縁がされるものに限る。）並びに請求の放棄及び認諾について準用する。 art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/ch-4#art-46/par-1 The provisions of Article 37 (excluding the proviso to paragraph (1)) apply mutatis mutandis to a settlement in litigation connected with an action to dissolve an adoptive relationship (limited to a settlement through which the adoptive relationship is dissolved) as well as to the waiver or acknowledgement of a claim in that litigation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-46/par-1: 第三十七条 → 人事訴訟法 第三十七条 (Article 37), art-37 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/ch-2/from-art-35#art-37 - art-46/par-1: 第一項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/ch-2/from-art-35#art-37/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text as 令和八年法律第四十六号 leaves it, from a date not yet fixed (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20281223_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02