# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第三十四条 (Article 34) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34. 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: 第三十四条 (Article 34)（家庭裁判所調査官による事実の調査） — address `art-34` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34 - 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. --- ### 第三十四条（家庭裁判所調査官による事実の調査） — (Examination of the Facts by Family Court Investigators) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34 **第一項** 裁判所は、家庭裁判所調査官に事実の調査をさせることができる。 art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34/par-1 The court may have a family court investigator conduct an examination of the facts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 急迫の事情があるときは、裁判長が、家庭裁判所調査官に事実の調査をさせることができる。 art-34/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34/par-2 In urgent circumstances, the presiding judge may have a family court investigator conduct an examination of the facts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 家庭裁判所調査官は、事実の調査の結果を書面又は口頭で裁判所に報告するものとする。 art-34/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34/par-3 A family court investigator is to report the results of an examination of the facts to the court orally or in writing. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A family court investigator is to report the results of an examination of the dacts to the court orally or in writing." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb **第四項** 家庭裁判所調査官は、前項の規定による報告に意見を付することができる。 art-34/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34/par-4 A family court investigator may add an opinion to a report under the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-34/par-4: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十四条第三項 (Article 34, paragraph (3)), art-34/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第三十四条第四項（家庭裁判所調査官による事実の調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-34/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-34/par-4 --- ## 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 34, paragraph (3) — 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 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02