# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-28. 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（利害関係人に対する訴訟係属の通知） — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条（利害関係人に対する訴訟係属の通知） — (Notifying Interested Parties of Pending Litigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-28 **第一項** 裁判所は、人事に関する訴えが提起された場合における利害関係人であって、父が死亡した後に認知の訴えが提起された場合におけるその子その他の相当と認められるものとして最高裁判所規則で定めるものに対し、訴訟が係属したことを通知するものとする。ただし、訴訟記録上その利害関係人の氏名及び住所又は居所が判明している場合に限る。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-28/par-1 The court must notify that litigation has become pending before it to a party who has an interest in the action concerning personal status that has been filed and who is specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court as a person whom it is appropriate to notify, such as the child of the father in question in the event that an action for filiation has been filed after the father has died provided, however, that this is limited to cases in which the interested party's name and domicile or residence are found in the case record. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## 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