Generally, domestic partnership is not a bar to marriage, even if it is with someone else. However, if your domestic partnership is with a statewide registry and is substantially equivalent to marriage, then some states may recognize your domestic partnership as a marriage. If that is the case, then you must dissolve your domestic partnership before you can marry another person.

In some places, you must complete an affidavit of domestic partnership and notarize it in order to register your partnership.

No. Rules vary, but domestic partnership is universally limited to unmarried persons.

A domestic partnership registry is usually a registry of contracts or agreements between two people that offers some of the rights and responsibilities of marriage.

What constitutes a domestic partnership varies by jurisdiction.

No. Domestic Partnerships do not expire.