WHO CAN QUALIFY AS DOMESTIC PARTNERS UNDER THE ORDINANCE?
To be domestic partners, you and your partner must reside together (see below for an explanation of what this means) in a relationship of mutual support, caring and commitment, be 18 or over, be competent to create a contract, and consider yourselves to be a family. Neither of you can be married to anyone, and neither of you can have a different domestic partner. If either of you had a different domestic partner before, you have to wait six months and seven days after the old domestic partnership ended before you can set up a new one. You cannot be related to your partner as a parent, stepparent, child, stepchild, sister or brother, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, grandparent or grandchild, or any other relationship that would bar marriage. WHAT DOES RESIDE TOGETHER MEAN? Reside together means living together in common household and sharing the common necessities of life. A partner may be temporarily absent from the common household, so long as she or he has the intent to return. HOW TO RE
