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alimony

legal obligation to provide financial support to one's spouse due to marital separation
Class type of: obligation Q368305

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
legal term or legal concept
Subclass of
obligation
Described by source
Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[4][5][6][7][8][9]
Different from
Unterhalt[10]
Said to be the same as
nafaqah[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en allimony en domestic support en maintenance en spousal support en alimony ar نفقة ar النفقة cs výživné cs alimentační povinnost cs alimenty cs vyživovací povinnost da underholdsbidrag da hustrubidrag da ægtefællebidrag de Sustentation de Alimente de Unterhalt el Επίδομα διατροφής es Derecho de alimentos fa نفقه
🔖 Identifiers · 34
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85003572
GND ID
4117293-0
OpenAlex ID
C2777492516
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
29489800X
BVPB authority ID
106339
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
alimony
Catholic Encyclopedia ID
01313a
DOI
10.1163/1875-3922_Q3_EQSIM_00271
Dewey Decimal Classification
346 (346–346, n=3)
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID
EQSIM-00271
Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID
43797
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/alimony
Show all 34 identifiers +22
EuroVoc ID
2099
Freebase ID
/m/0p6bb
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1218cq5d
Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
673
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
underholdsbidrag
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1813152
Harper's tag
alimony
J9U entity ID
987007294082305171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
alimony
Jewish Encyclopedia ID
1236
Lex ID
børnebidrag
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2777492516
NL CR AUT ID
ph127301
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3867866
PSH ID
9072
Quora topic ID
Alimony
STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
19839-2
SVKKL authority ID
0260640-vyzivovaci-povinnost
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
nafaka
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
91913
YSO ID
14639, 99
Yale LUX ID
concept/616a8f21-39fb-4a6b-be3b-bdd96d2cbb7d

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🔗 Connections
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
Said to be the same as 1
nafaqah
Subclass of 1
obligation
← Facet of 1
nafaqah
← Main subject 1
Shah Bano case
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Summary

alimony is a legal term or legal concept[1]. alimony is a type of obligation[2].

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · Magnus Manske · 2026-11-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    BVPB authority ID → 106339
    "Created claim: BVPB authority ID: 106339, batch #294593"
  2. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → alimony
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: alimony, Matched to alimony (#289912893) in Harper's tag #mix'n'm"
  3. 15w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish Encyclopedia ID → 1236
    "Created claim: Jewish Encyclopedia ID: 1236, Matched to ALIMONY (#167474368) in Jewish Encyclopedia #mix'"
  4. 21w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0260640-vyzivovaci-povinnost
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0260640-vyzivovaci-povinnost, batch #259599"
  5. 25w ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    DOI → 10.1163/1875-3922_Q3_EQSIM_00271
    Instance of → legal term or legal concept
    Different from → Unterhalt
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron +1
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim references: OpenAlex ID: C2777492516, Rescuing 1 sources and submitting 0 for archiving. #IABot (v2.0.9.5)"
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