Defense of Marriage Act

Pub. L. 104–199

US Codex doesn’t hold the enacted text of this law — the public-law corpus runs from the 113th Congress (2013) onward. What it changed in the U.S. Code, reconstructed from the credit notes, is listed below.

2 sections of the Code credited to this law, found between Public Law 104-98 and Public Law 104-333.

• 1 U.S.C. § 7 — Definition of “marriage” and “spouse”
• 28 U.S.C. § 1738C — Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the effect thereof