Child Support Act 1991
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The Child Support Act 1991 is a UK law that established the modern statutory system for assessing, collecting, and enforcing child maintenance from non-resident parents.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Child Support Act 1991 canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2606200 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Child Support Act 1991 Context triple: [Child Maintenance Service, legalBasis, Child Support Act 1991]
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A.
Title IV—Child Support Enforcement
Title IV—Child Support Enforcement is a section of U.S. federal law that establishes and governs programs to locate noncustodial parents, establish paternity, and enforce child support obligations.
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B.
Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act
The Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act is a Japanese statute that governs how family-related legal matters—such as divorce, custody, and inheritance—are handled and adjudicated in the country’s judicial system.
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C.
Child Support Enforcement Program
The Child Support Enforcement Program is a U.S. federal-state initiative that works to establish paternity, locate noncustodial parents, and secure financial support for children from their parents.
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D.
Family Allowances Act 1945
The Family Allowances Act 1945 was a landmark UK social welfare law that introduced regular state payments to support families with children, helping to lay the foundations of the modern British welfare state.
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E.
Illinois Parentage Act
The Illinois Parentage Act is a state statute that establishes legal rules and procedures for determining and enforcing the parent-child relationship in Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Child Support Act 1991 Target entity description: The Child Support Act 1991 is a UK law that established the modern statutory system for assessing, collecting, and enforcing child maintenance from non-resident parents.
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A.
Title IV—Child Support Enforcement
Title IV—Child Support Enforcement is a section of U.S. federal law that establishes and governs programs to locate noncustodial parents, establish paternity, and enforce child support obligations.
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B.
Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act
The Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act is a Japanese statute that governs how family-related legal matters—such as divorce, custody, and inheritance—are handled and adjudicated in the country’s judicial system.
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C.
Child Support Enforcement Program
The Child Support Enforcement Program is a U.S. federal-state initiative that works to establish paternity, locate noncustodial parents, and secure financial support for children from their parents.
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D.
Family Allowances Act 1945
The Family Allowances Act 1945 was a landmark UK social welfare law that introduced regular state payments to support families with children, helping to lay the foundations of the modern British welfare state.
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E.
Illinois Parentage Act
The Illinois Parentage Act is a state statute that establishes legal rules and procedures for determining and enforcing the parent-child relationship in Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom statute ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Child Maintenance Service
ⓘ
Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission ⓘ
linked to:
Child Maintenance Service
Child Support Agency ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
non-resident parents
ⓘ
persons with care of children ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
family law
ⓘ
social security law ⓘ |
| citationForm | 1991 c. 48 ⓘ |
| containsProvisionsOn |
appeals against child support decisions
ⓘ
calculation of child maintenance ⓘ collection of child maintenance ⓘ enforcement of child maintenance ⓘ liability of non-resident parents ⓘ powers of the Child Support Agency ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBody | Child Support Agency ⓘ |
| definesTerm |
non-resident parent
ⓘ
person with care ⓘ qualifying child ⓘ |
| enforcementMechanismsInclude |
committal to prison in certain circumstances
ⓘ
deductions from earnings ⓘ disqualification from driving in certain circumstances ⓘ distress and seizure of goods ⓘ liability orders ⓘ |
| establishedSystem | statutory child support scheme ⓘ |
| hasBeenAmendedBy |
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008
ⓘ
Child Support Act 1995 ⓘ Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
England and Wales
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | in force with amendments ⓘ |
| legislature |
Parliament of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
British Parliament
|
| policyContext | reform of child maintenance in early 1990s UK social policy ⓘ |
| purpose |
to establish a statutory system for assessing child maintenance
ⓘ
to establish a statutory system for collecting child maintenance ⓘ to establish a statutory system for enforcing child maintenance ⓘ |
| regulates |
child maintenance
ⓘ
child support ⓘ |
| replaced | primarily court-based child maintenance arrangements for new cases ⓘ |
| royalAssentDate | 1991 ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Child Support Act 1991 ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1991 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Child Support Act 1991 Description of subject: The Child Support Act 1991 is a UK law that established the modern statutory system for assessing, collecting, and enforcing child maintenance from non-resident parents.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.