Registered domestic partners shall be treated the same as spouses. Any privilege, immunity, right, benefit, or responsibility granted or imposed by Tribal ordinance, court rule, policy, common law or any other law to a person because the person is or was a spouse, or because the person is or was an in-law in a specified way to another person, is granted on equivalent terms, substantive and procedural, to a person because the person is or was in a registered domestic partnership or because the person is or was, based on a registered domestic partnership, related in a specified way to another person.
(Res. 2013-346. Formerly 4.20.610; Res. 2015-138; Res. 2015-504; Res. 2022-432)
To enter into a registered domestic partnership the two persons involved must meet the following requirements:
(1) 
At least one of the persons is an enrolled member of the Tulalip Tribes;
(2) 
Both persons share a common residence;
(3) 
Both persons are at least 18 years of age;
(4) 
Neither person is married and neither person is in a registered domestic partnership with another person;
(5) 
Both persons are capable of consenting to the domestic partnership; and
(6) 
Neither person is a lineal descendant, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, or first cousin to the other person.
(Res. 2013-346. Formerly 4.20.620; Res. 2015-138; Res. 2015-504; Res. 2022-432)
(1) 
Two persons desiring to become registered domestic partners who meet the requirements of TTC § 4.20.690 may register their domestic partnership by filing a declaration of registered domestic partnership with the Court Clerk and paying the filing fee established by the Court. The declaration must be signed by both persons and notarized.
(2) 
Upon receipt of a signed, notarized declaration and the filing fee, the Court Clerk shall register the declaration and provide a certificate of registered domestic partnership to each person named on the declaration.
(3) 
The Court Clerk shall keep a public record of all declarations and certificates issued.
(4) 
The Court Clerk shall provide the State Registrar of Vital Statistics with records of declarations of registered domestic partnerships.
(Res. 2013-346. Formerly 4.20.630; Res. 2015-138; Res. 2015-504; Res. 2022-432)
A legal union, other than a marriage, of two persons that was validly formed in another jurisdiction, and that is substantially equivalent to a domestic partnership under this chapter, shall be recognized as a valid domestic partnership and shall be treated the same as a domestic partnership regardless of whether it bears the name domestic partnership.
(Res. 2013-346. Formerly 4.20.640; Res. 2015-138; Res. 2015-504; Res. 2022-432)
(1) 
Partners in a registered domestic partnership may apply and receive a marriage license and have such marriage solemnized pursuant to this chapter, so long as the persons are otherwise eligible to marry, and the persons to the marriage are the same as the persons to the registered domestic partnership.
(2) 
A registered domestic partnership is dissolved by operation of law by any marriage of the same persons to each other, as of the date of the marriage stated in the certificate.
(Res. 2013-346. Formerly 4.20.650; Res. 2015-138; Res. 2015-504; Res. 2022-432)