---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1062"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1062"
heading: "Certain former spouses and surviving spouses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1062"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 54 — Commissary and Exchange Benefits"
---

# §1062. Certain former spouses and surviving spouses

- (a) **Certain Unremarried Former Spouses.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to provide that an unremarried former [spouse](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-5) described in subparagraph (F)(i) of [section 1072(2) of this title](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2) is entitled to use commissary stores and MWR retail [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to the same extent and on the same basis as the surviving [spouse](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-5) of a retired member of the [uniformed services](/usc/10/1072.md?p=1).
- (b) **Certain Remarried Surviving Spouses.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to provide that a surviving [spouse](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-5) of a deceased member of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4), regardless of the marital status of the surviving [spouse](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-5), is entitled to use commissary stores and MWR retail [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to the same extent and on the same basis as an unremarried surviving [spouse](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-5) of a member of the [uniformed services](/usc/10/1072.md?p=1).
- (c) **MWR Retail Facilities Defined.—** In this section, the term “MWR retail [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2)” has the meaning given that term in [section 1063 of this title](/usc/10/1063.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–370, § 1(c)(1), July 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 841; amended Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title VI, § 633(a), (c), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 297.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Section is based on Pub. L. 97–252, title X, § 1005, Sept. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 737.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2023—Pub. L. 118–31 inserted “and surviving spouses” at end of section catchline, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, substituted “use commissary stores and MWR retail facilities” for “commissary and exchange privileges”, and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Regulations

Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title VI, § 633(b), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 297, provided that: “The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations under section 1062(b) of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a)(3), not later than October 1, 2025.”