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alimony

legal obligation to provide financial support to one's spouse due to marital separation
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alimony

Summary

alimony is a legal term or legal concept[1]. alimony ranks in the top 8% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (388 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • alimony's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].
  • alimony is a type of obligation[4].
  • alimony's Commons category is recorded as Alimony[5].
  • alimony's said to be the same as is recorded as nafaqah[6].
  • alimony's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[7].
  • alimony's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • alimony's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[9].
  • alimony's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • alimony's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • alimony's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[12].
  • alimony's different from is recorded as Unterhalt[13].

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Designation and Status

alimony's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].

Why It Matters

alimony ranks in the top 8% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (388 views/month).[2] alimony has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] alimony is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_alimony_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{alimony}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/alimony}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 4d 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
    Aliases → —
    Different from → Unterhalt
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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