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[CITE: 28USC1738C]


               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE

                            PART V--PROCEDURE

                   CHAPTER 115--EVIDENCE; DOCUMENTARY

Sec. 1738C. Certain acts, records, and proceedings and the
        effect thereof

    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.

(Added Pub. L. 104-199, Sec. 2(a), Sept. 21, 1996, 110 Stat. 2419.)