Columbia Requirements for domestic partnership ordinance (§ 12-73)

To establish a domestic partnership, two (2) individuals must file a joint declaration of domestic partnership with the department affirming that they:

(1) Have resided together for at least six (6) months;

(2) Each intends to reside with the other and share the common necessities of life;

(3) Are each eighteen (18) years of age or older;

(4) Are mentally competent to contract;

(5) Are not related by blood closer than would bar marriage in the State of Missouri;

(6) Are not married to any person other than their domestic partner; and

(7) Are each other's sole domestic partner.