# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百十七条の九 (Article 817-9) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": 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: 第八百十七条の九 (Article 817-9)（実方との親族関係の終了） — address `art-817-9` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-9 - 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. --- ### 第八百十七条の九（実方との親族関係の終了） — (Extinguishment of Kinship with the Natural Relatives) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-817-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-9 **第一項** 養子と実方の父母及びその血族との親族関係は、特別養子縁組によって終了する。ただし、第八百十七条の三第二項ただし書に規定する他の一方及びその血族との親族関係については、この限りでない。 art-817-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-9/par-1 The kinship between an adopted child and the natural parents and blood relatives thereof is extinguished by a special adoption; provided, however, that this does not apply to the kinship with the other spouse provided for in the proviso to Article 817-3, paragraph (2) and the blood relatives thereof. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-817-9/par-1: 第八百十七条の三第二項 → 民法 第八百十七条の三第二項 (Article 817-3, paragraph (2)), art-817-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-3/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第七百三十四条第二項（近親者間の婚姻の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-734/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-734/par-2 - 民法 第七百三十五条第一項（直系姻族間の婚姻の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-735/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-735/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4275/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11