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State of Kuwait · Statutory text

Article 204 of Personal Status Law

English translation

If there are multiple persons entitled to maintenance and the means of the person obliged to provide maintenance are insufficient for all of them, priority shall be given to the wife's maintenance, then his children, then the mother, then the father.
Arabic original
إذا تعدد المستحقون للنفقة ، ولم يكن في يسار من تجب عليه النفقة ما يكفي جميعهم ، قدمت نفقة الزوجة ، ثم اولاده ، ثم الام ، ثم الاب .

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