2.50.020 Criteria for establishing a domestic partnership.
The following criteria must be met for two individuals to be considered domestic partners for the purposes of registering the partnership with the City of Topeka:
(a) Both individuals are residents of the City of Topeka, as defined in TMC 2.50.010.
(b) Both individuals share a common permanent residence. It is not necessary that the legal right to possess the common residence be in both of the individual’s names.
(c) Both individuals agree to be in a relationship of mutual interdependence.
(d) Both individuals contribute to the maintenance and support of the household. The individuals are not required to contribute equally to the household.
(e) Neither individual is married to a third individual or a member of a domestic partnership with a third individual.
(f) Each individual is 18 years of age or older.
(g) Each individual has the mental capacity to contract.
(h) The two individuals are not related by blood in a way that would prevent them from being married to one another in the State of Kansas.
(i) Both individuals agree to file a declaration of domestic partnership with the City pursuant to this chapter. (Ord. 20206 § 14, 9-10-19; Ord. 19905 § 2, 5-20-14. Formerly 2.150.020.)