A couple who registers as a domestic partner and meets the following requirements:

• We have a common residence;
• Neither of us is married to someone else, or is a member of another domestic partnership with someone else that has not been terminated, dissolved, or adjudged a nullity;
• We are not related by blood in a way that would prevent us from being married to each other in this state;
• We are both at least 18 years of age;
• We are both members of the same sex or one/or both of us is/are over the age of 62 and meet the eligibility criteria under Title II of the Social Security Act as defined in 42 U.S.C. Section 402(a) for old-age insurance benefits or Title XVI of the Social Security Act as defined in 42 U.S.C Section 1381 for aged individuals;
• We are both capable of consenting to the domestic partnership;
• We consent to the jurisdiction of the Superior Courts of California for the purpose of a proceeding to obtain a judgment of dissolution or nullity of the domestic partnership or for legal separation of partners in the domestic partnership, or for any other proceeding related to the partners’ rights and obligations, even if one or both partners ceases to be a resident of, or to maintain a domicile in, this state.