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Effective Jan 1, 2020Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. (SB 30) Effective January 1, 2020.
- (a) Domestic partners are two adults who have chosen to share one another’s lives in an intimate and committed relationship of mutual caring.
(b) A domestic partnership shall be established in California when both persons file a Declaration of Domestic Partnership with the Secretary of State pursuant to this division, and, at the time of filing, all of the following requirements are met:
- (1) Neither person is married to someone else or is a member of another domestic partnership with someone else that has not been terminated, dissolved, or adjudged a nullity.
- (2) The two persons are not related by blood in a way that would prevent them from being married to each other in this state.
- (3) Both persons are at least 18 years of age, except as provided in Section 297.1.
- (4) Both persons are capable of consenting to the domestic partnership.