Friday, April 29, 2011

DOMA in the Code - Section 2

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28 USC Sec. 1738C 02/01/2010
-EXPCITE-
TITLE 28 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
PART V - PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 115 - EVIDENCE; DOCUMENTARY
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Sec. 1738C. Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof
-STATUTE-
No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such
other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.
-SOURCE-
(Added Pub. L. 104-199, Sec. 2(a), Sept. 21, 1996, 110 Stat. 2419.)
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Link: http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/28C115.txt

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