{
  "id": 14924712,
  "title": "Zimbabwe: High Court Reasserts Equal Parental Rights, Rejects Automatic Maternal Custody",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/zimbabwe-high-court-reasserts-equal-parental-rights-rejects-automatic",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-16T09:36:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica",
    "slug": "allafrica",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202610160152.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "[New Zimbabwe] THE High Court has reaffirmed that Zimbabwean law no longer gives mothers automatic preference over fathers in child custody disputes, ruling that the best interests of children, rather than a parent's gender, must determine where they live.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}