Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 26 Domestic Relations - Chapter 26.60 State Registered Domestic Partnerships

26.60.010 Legislative findings
Many Washingtonians are in intimate, committed, and exclusive relationships with another person to whom they are not legally married. These relationships are important to the ...

26.60.020 Definitions
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "State registered domestic partners" means two adults who meet ...

26.60.025 Definition -- Domestic partnership
Whenever the term "domestic partnership" is used in the Revised Code of Washington it shall be defined to mean "state registered domestic partnership" and whenever ...

26.60.030 Requirements
To enter into a state registered domestic partnership the two persons involved must meet the following requirements: (1) Both persons share a common residence; (2) ...

26.60.040 Registration -- Records -- Fees
(1) Two persons desiring to become state registered domestic partners who meet the requirements of RCW 26.60.030 may register their domestic partnership by filing a ...

26.60.050 Termination -- Records -- Fees
(1) Parties to a state registered domestic partnership meeting the conditions in RCW 26.60.055 may terminate the relationship without filing a petition under chapter 26.09 ...

26.60.055 Termination
(1) Notwithstanding this chapter, a domestic partnership may be terminated without filing a petition for dissolution in superior court, provided that all of the following ...

26.60.060 Domestic partnerships created by subdivisions of the state
(1)(a) A domestic partnership created by a subdivision of the state is not a state registered domestic partnership for the purposes of a state registered ...

26.60.070 Patient visitation
A patient's state registered domestic partner shall have the same rights as a spouse with respect to visitation of the patient in a health care ...

26.60.080 Community property rights -- Date of application
Any community property rights of domestic partners established by chapter 6, Laws of 2008 shall apply from the date of the initial registration of the ...

26.60.090 Reciprocity
A legal union of two persons of the same sex, other than a marriage, that was validly formed in another jurisdiction, and that is substantially ...

26.60.900 Part headings not law -- 2008 c 6
Part headings used in this act are not any part of the law.[2008 c 6 § 1301.] ...

26.60.901 Severability -- 2008 c 6
If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application ...