# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第六条 (Article 6) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-6. 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（調停事件が係属していた家庭裁判所の自庁処理） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（調停事件が係属していた家庭裁判所の自庁処理） — (Handling Under Extended Jurisdiction by the Family Court Before Which the Conciliation Case Was Pending) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-6 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、人事訴訟の全部又は一部がその管轄に属しないと認める場合においても、当該人事訴訟に係る事件について家事事件手続法第二百五十七条第一項の規定により申し立てられた調停に係る事件がその家庭裁判所に係属していたときであって、調停の経過、当事者の意見その他の事情を考慮して特に必要があると認めるときは、民事訴訟法第十六条第一項の規定にかかわらず、申立てにより又は職権で、当該人事訴訟の全部又は一部について自ら審理及び裁判をすることができる。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-6/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure, even if a family court finds that all or part of personal status litigation is not under its jurisdiction, the court may itself conduct proceedings and make judicial decisions for all or part of that personal status litigation upon petition or sua sponte, if a case under conciliation that was petitioned for in connection with the relevant personal status litigation case pursuant to the provisions of Article 257, paragraph (1) of the Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act was pending before that court, and if the court finds it particularly necessary to do so in light of the progress of the conciliation, the opinions of the parties, and any other circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-6/par-1: 家事事件手続法第二百五十七条第一項 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000052, 第二百五十七条第一項 (Article 257, paragraph (1)), art-257/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-6/par-1: 民事訴訟法第十六条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-16/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第三十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-31/par-1 - 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