# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第二条 (Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-2. 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: 第二条 (Article 2)（定義） — address `art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（定義） — (Definitions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-2 **第一項** この法律において「人事訴訟」とは、次に掲げる訴えその他の身分関係の形成又は存否の確認を目的とする訴え（以下「人事に関する訴え」という。）に係る訴訟をいう。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-2/par-1 The term "personal status litigation" as used in this Act means litigation related to any of the following actions or to any other action through which a person seeks a change in the status of a familial relationship or a declaratory judgment as to whether a familial relationship exists (referred to below as a "personal status action"): Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 婚姻の無効及び取消しの訴え、離婚の訴え、協議上の離婚の無効及び取消しの訴え並びに婚姻関係の存否の確認の訴え art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-2/par-1/item-1 an action to nullify or rescind a marriage, action for divorce, action to nullify or rescind a divorce by agreement, or action seeking a declaratory judgment as to whether a marital relationship exists; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 嫡出否認の訴え、認知の訴え、認知の無効及び取消しの訴え、民法（明治二十九年法律第八十九号）第七百七十三条の規定により父を定めることを目的とする訴え並びに実親子関係の存否の確認の訴え art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-2/par-1/item-2 an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy, action for filiation, action to nullify or rescind an acknowledgment of parentage, action to establish paternity pursuant to the provisions of Article 773 of the Civil Code (Act No. 89 of 1896), or action seeking a declaratory judgment as to whether a biological parent and child relationship exists; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 養子縁組の無効及び取消しの訴え、離縁の訴え、協議上の離縁の無効及び取消しの訴え並びに養親子関係の存否の確認の訴え art-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-2/par-1/item-3 an action to nullify or rescind an adoption, action to dissolve an adoptive relationship, action to nullify or rescind the dissolution of an adoptive relationship by agreement, or action seeking a declaratory judgment as to whether an adoptive parent and child relationship exists. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-2/par-1/item-2: 民法（明治二十九年法律第八十九号）第七百七十三条 → 民法 第七百七十三条 (Article 773), art-773 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-773 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-773 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 附則第二条第一項（訴訟費用額の確定手続に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-2/par-1 --- ## 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