A comprehensive guide to family and divorce cases in Kuwait – prepared by lawyer Khaled Mufrej Al-Dalmani

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Personal status cases are among the most impactful on family life, given their connection to divorce, alimony, child custody, visitation rights, overnight stays, and marital rights. This page aims to provide a comprehensive guide to help couples understand their rights and legal procedures, while also clarifying the modern judicial principles adopted by family courts in Kuwait.

Types of family cases in Kuwait

• Types of divorce: divorce due to harm, divorce due to discord, arbitrary divorce
• Spousal support and child support
• Custody, its conditions and reasons for its termination
• Seeing, accompanying, and staying overnight
• Temporary maintenance
• Wages: Childcare allowance – Housing allowance – Breastfeeding allowance
• Educational State and School Transfer
• Proof of marriage or proof of divorce
• Lawsuits for coercion and withdrawal of custody
• claims for frozen and delayed alimony

Divorce cases in Kuwait

The most important issues considered by the courts include:

موسوعة الأحوال الشخصية والطلاق والقضايا الأسرية