# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第三十八条 (Article 38) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38. 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: 第三十八条 (Article 38)（履行の勧告） — address `art-38` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38 - 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. --- ### 第三十八条（履行の勧告） — (Issuing Recommendations to Perform) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38 **第一項** 第三十二条第一項又は第二項（同条第三項において準用する場合を含む。以下同じ。）の規定による裁判で定められた義務については、当該裁判をした家庭裁判所（上訴裁判所が当該裁判をした場合にあっては、第一審裁判所である家庭裁判所）は、権利者の申出があるときは、その義務の履行状況を調査し、義務者に対し、その義務の履行を勧告することができる。 art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-1 If requested by the obligee in connection with an obligation established through a judicial decision under the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) or (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article; the same applies below), the family court that made that judicial decision (or the family court constituting the court of first instance, if it was an appellate court that made that decision) may investigate the status of performance of the obligation and issue the obligor a recommendation to perform under the obligation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の家庭裁判所は、他の家庭裁判所に同項の規定による調査及び勧告を嘱託することができる。 art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-2 The family court referred to in the preceding paragraph may commission another family court to conduct the investigation or issue the recommendation under the provisions of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の家庭裁判所及び前項の嘱託を受けた家庭裁判所は、家庭裁判所調査官に第一項の規定による調査及び勧告をさせることができる。 art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-3 The family court referred to in paragraph (1) or the family court that has been commissioned as referred to in the preceding paragraph may have a family court investigator conduct the investigation or make the recommendation under the provisions of paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前三項の規定は、第三十二条第一項又は第二項の規定による裁判で定めることができる義務であって、婚姻の取消し又は離婚の訴えに係る訴訟における和解で定められたものの履行について準用する。 art-38/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-4 The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to the performance of an obligation that may be established through a judicial decision under Article 32, paragraph (1) or (2) but that has been established through a settlement in litigation connected with an action to rescind a marriage or with an action for divorce. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-38/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-38/par-1: 第二項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十二条第二項 (Article 32, paragraph (2)), art-32/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-32/par-2 - art-38/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-38/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-1 - art-38/par-3: 第一項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-1 - art-38/par-3: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十八条第二項 (Article 38, paragraph (2)), art-38/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-2 - art-38/par-4: 前三項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-1 - art-38/par-4: 前三項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十八条第二項 (Article 38, paragraph (2)), art-38/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-2 - art-38/par-4: 前三項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十八条第三項 (Article 38, paragraph (3)), art-38/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-3 - art-38/par-4: 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-38/par-4: 第二項 → 人事訴訟法 第三十二条第二項 (Article 32, paragraph (2)), art-32/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-32/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第三十八条第二項（履行の勧告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-2 - 人事訴訟法 第三十八条第三項（履行の勧告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-3 - 人事訴訟法 第三十八条第四項（履行の勧告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-38/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-38/par-4 --- ## 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