Article 27Termination of Personal Status Litigation Due to the Death of the Parties
第二十七条（当事者の死亡による人事訴訟の終了）
Except as otherwise provided, personal status litigation is terminated automatically if the plaintiff dies while it is pending.
人事訴訟の係属中に原告が死亡した場合には、特別の定めがある場合を除き、当該人事訴訟は、当然に終了する。
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, personal status litigation in which the subject matter is a divorce, rebuttal of the presumption of legitimacy (excluding cases where the father is the defendant), or the dissolution of an adoptive relationship is terminated by operation of law if the defendant dies while it is pending.
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personal status litigation
「人事訴訟」
Litigation on a personal status action (人事に関する訴え): an action through which a person seeks to form a personal status relationship (身分関係) or a declaration whether one exists, such as an action to nullify or rescind a marriage, an action for divorce, an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy, an action for filiation, an action to nullify or rescind an adoption, or an action to confirm whether a marital, parent-child or adoptive relationship exists.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law