# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第三条の四 (Article 3-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-3-4. 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: 第三条の四 (Article 3-4)（子の監護に関する処分についての裁判に係る事件等の管轄権） — address `art-3-4` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-3-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-3-4 - 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. --- ### 第三条の四（子の監護に関する処分についての裁判に係る事件等の管轄権） — (Jurisdiction Over Cases Involving Judicial Decisions to Settle Matters Related to Child Custody) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-3-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-3-4 **第一項** 裁判所は、日本の裁判所が婚姻の取消し又は離婚の訴えについて管轄権を有するときは、第三十二条第一項の子の監護者の指定その他の子の監護に関する処分についての裁判、同項の親権行使者の指定についての裁判及び同条第三項の親権者の指定についての裁判に係る事件について、管轄権を有する。 art-3-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-3-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-3-4/par-1 If a Japanese court has jurisdiction over an action to rescind a marriage or an action for divorce, it has jurisdiction over the case that involves the judicial decision referred to in Article 32, paragraph (1) to designate the custodial parent and settle other matters related to child custody and over the case that involves the judicial decision referred to in that paragraph to designate the person exercising parental authority alone, and it has jurisdiction over the case that involves the judicial decision referred to in paragraph (3) of that Article to designate the person with parental authority. machine translation, not official **第二項** 裁判所は、日本の裁判所が婚姻の取消し又は離婚の訴えについて管轄権を有する場合において、家事事件手続法（平成二十三年法律第五十二号）第三条の十二各号のいずれかに該当するときは、第三十二条第一項の財産の分与に関する処分についての裁判に係る事件について、管轄権を有する。 art-3-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-3-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-3-4/par-2 If a Japanese court has jurisdiction over an action to rescind a marriage or an action for divorce, it has jurisdiction over the case that involves the judicial decision to settle matters related to the distribution of property under Article 32, paragraph (1), if that case falls under any of the items of Article 3-12 of the Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act (Act No. 52 of 2011). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a Japanese court has jurisdiction over an action to rescind a marriage or an action for divorce, it has jurisdiction over the case that involves the judicial decision to settle matters related to the distribution of property, if that case falls under any of the items of Article 3-12 of the Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act (Act No. 52 of 2011)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb --- ## Cites - art-3-4/par-1: 第三十二条第一項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-32/par-1 - art-3-4/par-1: 同条第三項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十二条第三項 (Article 32, paragraph (3)), art-32/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-32/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-32/par-3 - art-3-4/par-2: 家事事件手続法（平成二十三年法律第五十二号）第三条の十二 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000052, 第三条の十二 (Article 3-12), art-3-12 — not held in this collection - art-3-4/par-2: 第三十二条第一項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-32/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 附則第二条第一項（人事訴訟法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4301-20/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4301-20/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Personal Status Litigation Act, written 2026-11-03 - 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 (人事訴訟法), Article 3-4, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch personal-status-litigation-act-20261102T174633-001, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02