United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Office of the General Counsel author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1997-01-31 monographic deposited born digital 75 p. GA 1.13:OGC-97-16 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-OGC-97-16 P0b002ee180399f5e f:og97016 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-OGC-97-16 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-OGC-97-16 OGC-97-16 Statutory law Beneficiaries Legal rights Letter Report OGC Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO identified federal laws in which benefits, rights, and privileges are contingent on marital status.<p/>GAO found that: (1) it conducted searches for various words or word stems chosen to elicit marital status, in several electronic databases that contain the text of federal laws; (2) this collection of laws is as complete and representative as can be produced by a global electronic search of the kind GAO conducted; (3) its data include only laws classified to the United States Code; and (4) no conclusions can be drawn from its identification of a law as one in which marital status is a factor, concerning the effect of the law on married people versus single people. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-OGC-97-16/html/GAOREPORTS-OGC-97-16.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-OGC-97-16/pdf/GAOREPORTS-OGC-97-16.pdf GAO/OGC-97-16 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-OGC-97-16 Letter Report GAO/OGC-97-16; Defense of Marriage Act; Statutory law Beneficiaries Legal rights Volume 110 Page 2419 110 Stat. 2419 Public Law 104-193 Public Law 104-199