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Domestic partnerships (62+) and committed intimate relationships — two honest edges
Washington's state registered domestic partnerships are AGE-GATED: both partners eighteen or older and at least one sixty-two or older — and they dissolve through the same chapter 26.09 machinery. Separately, Washington case law recognizes COMMITTED INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP property claims when long unmarried partnerships end — a judge-made doctrine with no statute behind it.
The honesty note
The CIR doctrine lives in case law this statute-first platform does not compute — it is named honestly here, and a Washington family lawyer is the path; parentage and child support run on their own statutes regardless of marital status.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
Do it with the tools
Legal information, not legal advice. Statements about county practice defer to your superior court's clerk-maintained local rules (GR 7(d)) and the courthouse facilitator — where this platform has no verified county data, it says so instead of guessing.