# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第十四条 (Article 14) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-14. 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: 第十四条 (Article 14) — address `art-14` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-14 - 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. --- ### 第十四条 art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-14 **第一項** 人事に関する訴えの原告又は被告となるべき者が成年被後見人であるときは、その成年後見人は、成年被後見人のために訴え、又は訴えられることができる。ただし、その成年後見人が当該訴えに係る訴訟の相手方となるときは、この限りでない。 art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-14/par-1 If a person who is to be the plaintiff or defendant in a personal status action is an adult ward, the guardian may sue or be sued in their stead provided, however, that this does not apply if the guardian is the other party to the litigation connected with that action. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項ただし書の場合には、成年後見監督人が、成年被後見人のために訴え、又は訴えられることができる。 art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-14/par-2 In the case referred to in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, the adult guardianship supervisor may sue or be sued instead of the adult ward. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-14/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-14/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-14/par-2 - 人事訴訟法 附則第五条第二項（人事訴訟における訴訟能力等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-5/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20260624_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