Family Act Article 41
This English translation was last updated on 2012-01-11, but the Chinese text was amended on 2023-06-21. Later amendments may not be reflected in the translation — please refer to the Chinese text.
With regard to circumstances where a multiple of family litigation matters, or a family litigation matter and a family non-litigation matter, are connected in facts from which the relevant claims arise, a petition for joining the cases concerned may be made to one of the juvenile and family courts that has jurisdiction over such cases, notwithstanding the provisions in Articles 53 and 248 of the Code of Civil Procedure.With regard to the circumstance provided in the preceding paragraph, a motion for amending or adding to the original claim, or for initiating a counter-claim, may be made prior to the conclusion of the oral pleading proceedings for the first or second instance.Where a separate action is initiated with regard to claims the amendment of which, the addition to which, or a counter-claim to which may be made in accordance with the preceding paragraph, the court may, when considers it necessary for consolidating the handling of the matters concerned or upon agreement between the parties, upon motion by the parties or on its own initiative, consolidate the case or make a ruling to transfer the case to a court of first instance or of second instance that has the family litigation matter concerned before it at the earliest instance. Provisions in Article 6, Paragraphs 3 to 5 of this Act shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to such a circumstance.Where a binding decision has been made at the time when a ruling to transfer the matter to the court becomes final and binding, the court to which the matter is thus transferred shall handle the transferred matter independently.Where the binding decision as provided in the preceding paragraph is made by a first-instance court and the matter has been lawfully appealed to and is before a court of second instance, the court to which the matter is thus transferred shall further transfer the said matter to be dealt jointly with the appealed matter by the second-instance court that handles the appeal.With regard to the joining of the matters by joining, amending, adding to the claims or initiating a counter-claim as provided in Paragraphs 1 to 3 of this Article, except as otherwise provided in this Act, the law governing the various matters respectively prior to their joining together shall apply.
中文原文 家事事件法第41條
數家事訴訟事件，或家事訴訟事件及家事非訟事件請求之基礎事實相牽連者，得向就其中一家事訴訟事件有管轄權之少年及家事法院合併請求，不受民事訴訟法第五十三條及第二百四十八條規定之限制。
前項情形，得於第一審或第二審言詞辯論終結前為請求之變更、追加或為反請求。
依前項情形得為請求之變更、追加或反請求者，如另行請求時，法院為統合處理事件認有必要或經當事人合意者，得依聲請或依職權，移由或以裁定移送家事訴訟事件繫屬最先之第一審或第二審法院合併審理，並準用第六條第三項至第五項之規定。
受移送之法院於移送裁定確定時，已就繫屬之事件為終局裁判者，應就移送之事件自行處理。
前項終局裁判為第一審法院之裁判，並經合法上訴第二審者，受移送法院應將移送之事件併送第二審法院合併審理。
法院就第一項至第三項所定得合併請求、變更、追加或反請求之數宗事件合併審理時，除本法別有規定外，適用合併審理前各該事件原應適用法律之規定為審理。
前項情形，得於第一審或第二審言詞辯論終結前為請求之變更、追加或為反請求。
依前項情形得為請求之變更、追加或反請求者，如另行請求時，法院為統合處理事件認有必要或經當事人合意者，得依聲請或依職權，移由或以裁定移送家事訴訟事件繫屬最先之第一審或第二審法院合併審理，並準用第六條第三項至第五項之規定。
受移送之法院於移送裁定確定時，已就繫屬之事件為終局裁判者，應就移送之事件自行處理。
前項終局裁判為第一審法院之裁判，並經合法上訴第二審者，受移送法院應將移送之事件併送第二審法院合併審理。
法院就第一項至第三項所定得合併請求、變更、追加或反請求之數宗事件合併審理時，除本法別有規定外，適用合併審理前各該事件原應適用法律之規定為審理。