# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第十七条 (Article 17) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-17. 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: 第十七条 (Article 17)（関連請求の併合等） — address `art-17` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条（関連請求の併合等） — (Joinder of Related Claims) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-17 **第一項** 人事訴訟に係る請求と当該請求の原因である事実によって生じた損害の賠償に関する請求とは、民事訴訟法第百三十六条の規定にかかわらず、一の訴えですることができる。この場合においては、当該人事訴訟に係る請求について管轄権を有する家庭裁判所は、当該損害の賠償に関する請求に係る訴訟について自ら審理及び裁判をすることができる。 art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-17/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 136 of the Code of Civil Procedure, both a claim relating to personal status litigation and a claim for damages arising from facts that constitute a cause of action associated with that claim may be filed in a single action. In that case, the family court that has jurisdiction over the claim relating to personal status litigation may itself conduct a trial and render a judgment in the litigation involving the claim for damages. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 人事訴訟に係る請求の原因である事実によって生じた損害の賠償に関する請求を目的とする訴えは、前項に規定する場合のほか、既に当該人事訴訟の係属する家庭裁判所にも提起することができる。この場合においては、同項後段の規定を準用する。 art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-17/par-2 In addition to the cases provided for in the preceding paragraph, an action to claim damages arising from facts constituting a cause of action relating to personal status litigation may be filed with the family court before which that personal status litigation is already pending. In that case, the provisions of the second sentence of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第八条第二項の規定は、前項の場合における同項の人事訴訟に係る事件及び同項の損害の賠償に関する請求に係る事件について準用する。 art-17/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-17/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-17/par-3 The provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to both the personal status litigation case referred to in the preceding paragraph and the case involving the claim for damages referred to in that paragraph, in a situation as referred to in that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-17/par-1: 民事訴訟法第百三十六条 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十六条 (Article 136), art-136 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-136 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-136 - art-17/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-17/par-1 - art-17/par-3: 第八条第二項 → 人事訴訟法 第八条第二項 (Article 8, paragraph (2)), art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-8/par-2 - art-17/par-3: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第十七条第二項 (Article 17, paragraph (2)), art-17/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-17/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第十七条第二項（関連請求の併合等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-17/par-2 - 人事訴訟法 第十七条第三項（関連請求の併合等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-17/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-17/par-3 --- ## 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