# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第五条 (Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（併合請求における管轄） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（併合請求における管轄） — (Jurisdiction over a Joint Claim) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-5 **第一項** 数人からの又は数人に対する一の人事に関する訴えで数個の身分関係の形成又は存否の確認を目的とする数個の請求をする場合には、前条の規定にかかわらず、同条の規定により一の請求について管轄権を有する家庭裁判所にその訴えを提起することができる。ただし、民事訴訟法第三十八条前段に定める場合に限る。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-5/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, if multiple claims by or against multiple persons seeking changes in the status of multiple familial relationships or a declaratory judgment as to whether multiple familial relationships exist are filed in a single personal status action, the action may be filed with a family court that has jurisdiction over one of those claims pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article provided, however, that this is limited to the cases specified in the first sentence of Article 38 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-5/par-1: 前条 → 人事訴訟法 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-4 - art-5/par-1: 民事訴訟法第三十八条 → 民事訴訟法 第三十八条 (Article 38), art-38 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-38 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 附則第四条第一項（人事訴訟の管轄等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-4/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