(1) If a lessee dies without a successor, any person who has a de facto marital relationship and has lived together with the lessee as a member of the family in his or her house, shall succeed to the rights and obligations of the lessee.
(2) When a lessee is dead, if the successor has not been living together with the lessee as a member of the family in his or her house at the time of his or her death, any person having the de facto marital relationship with the lessee, and the relatives within the second degree of relationship therewith, who have lived together with him or her in his or her house, shall jointly succeed to the rights and obligations of the lessee.
(3) In cases provided for in paragraphs (1) and (2), this shall not apply in cases where a person to succeed under paragraphs (1) and (2) gives a dissenting opinion of the succession to the rights and obligations of a lessee to a lessor within one month after the lessee died.
(4) In cases provided for in paragraphs (1) and (2), any claim and obligation created by the relation of lease shall be reverted to a person who has succeeded to the rights and obligations of the lessee.[This Article Wholly Amended on Mar. 21, 2008]