{"id":363401,"date":"2017-10-20T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T10:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=363401"},"modified":"2017-10-20T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T10:58:07","slug":"zimbabwe-widow-wins-landmark-inheritance-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/zimbabwe-widow-wins-landmark-inheritance-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe widow wins landmark inheritance battle"},"content":{"rendered":"
Zimbabwe\u2019s High Court has ruled that when a person dies they must leave the bulk of their estate in their will to their immediate family, the country\u2019s state-run Herald newspaper says.<\/p>\n
The landmark case was brought by a widow in Mutare who had been excluded from her late husband\u2019s will. He had also disinherited his two children.<\/p>\n
Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo said that the widow, Lily Lilian Nyamushanya, should be the sole beneficiary of the matrimonial home and the children should benefit from the estate.<\/p>\n
According to the Herald, she said the right to distribute one\u2019s estate was not absolute if the person\u2019s will \u201cdisregarded the rights of beneficiaries as enshrined in the constitution\u201d.<\/p>\n
She added that “traditions and cultural practices that infringe the rights of women conferred by the constitution” were void.<\/p>\n
When a man dies in Zimbabwe, his family often takes his property leaving his widow destitute.<\/p>\n
This often affects women in customary marriages or when their spouse dies without a will.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zimbabwe\u2019s High Court has ruled that when a person dies they must leave the bulk of their estate in their will to their immediate family, the country\u2019s state-run Herald newspaper says. The landmark case was brought by a widow in Mutare who had been excluded from her late husband\u2019s will. He had also disinherited his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":197247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[563],"yoast_head":"\n