Get To Apply To Register A Domestic Relationship:

Under the new law, same-sex couples over the age of 18 and heterosexual couples in which one partner is over the age of 62 qualify for a domestic partnership. Eligible couples must also share a common residence. They cannot be closely related, married, or in a domestic partnership with another person.

You may register by completing a Confidential Declaration of Domestic Partnership Form DP-1A, having both partners' signatures notarized, and submitting the form with the appropriate fee to the California Secretary of State.

A state registered domestic partnership is a relationship between two adults that grants them the legal rights, benefits, and protections that they would have if they married — for example, inheritance and community property rights, among many others.

"Domestic partnership" means an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit formed under § 50-73.88, or predecessor law of the Commonwealth, and includes, for all purposes of the laws of the Commonwealth, a registered limited liability partnership.

To qualify for such a domestic partnership, the employee partner must submit an affidavit to their employer stating that they are unmarried adult partners who have lived together for at least a year and have interdependent finances, as demonstrated by submitting evidence of shared finances.

A domestic partnership is an arrangement in which two people live together and are in a committed relationship without being legally married. It shares many of the same benefits as being married. Domestic partnerships are composed of two people of any gender, which includes male, female, or nonbinary people.

Domestic partners are two persons, each aged 18 or older, who have chosen to live together in a committed relationship, who are not legally allowed to marry in the state in which they reside, and who have agreed to be jointly responsible for living expenses incurred during the domestic partnership. • Live Together.

Be at least 18 years old and able to contract; Not be related in any way that would prohibit a marriage in Pennsylvania; Be each other's sole domestic partner; Not have been in another domestic partnership in the past 6 months (absent death or marriage of the other partner);