Article 216 of Code of Civil Procedure

Without prejudice to the provisions of any other law, the following may not be attached: a - Public or private property owned by the State. b - The clothing needed by the debtor, his wife, his relatives and his relatives by marriage residing with him in one household, and the household furniture and kitchen utensils necessary for them. The food and fuel they need for a period of one month; nor may what is needed for the performance of their religious duties be attached. c - Property donated or bequeathed so that it or its yield constitutes maintenance or a temporary or lifelong allowance, and sums adjudged by the courts as amounts fixed or temporarily allocated for maintenance or for expenditure on a specific purpose, all of the foregoing except to the extent of one quarter in satisfaction of an established maintenance debt. d - Property donated or bequeathed subject to a condition prohibiting its attachment, where the attaching creditor is one of the creditors of the donee or legatee whose debt arose before the gift or bequest, except for an established maintenance debt and within the limits of one quarter. e - The books, tools and equipment needed by the debtor to practise his profession or craft personally, unless the attachment is for recovery of their price, their maintenance expenses or established maintenance. f - Movable property deemed immovable by allocation, where it is attached separately from the immovable property to whose service it is allocated, unless the attachment is for recovery of its price or maintenance expenses. g - Wages and salaries for which no special law has been enacted regulating the conditions of exemption from attachment, except to the extent of one half. Where claims compete, half thereof shall be allocated to payment of established maintenance debts and the other half to other debts. h - The private dwelling necessary for the residence of the Kuwaiti debtor and his family, provided that he occupied it before the debt arose. This provision shall apply to only one dwelling of his, all of the foregoing unless the interdiction is for recovery of a debt established in favour of the Kuwait Credit Bank, a debt secured by a privilege over this property pursuant to Articles 1080, 1081 and 1082 of the Civil Code, or court-awarded maintenance. The debtor shall not benefit from this provision if the creditor proves that the debtor disposed of his property, before or after the entry into force of this Law, in a manner prejudicial to the creditor's right. A dwelling shall be deemed necessary if it is government housing or equivalent private housing erected on land whose area does not exceed one thousand square metres. The judge of urgent matters shall determine disputes arising from the assessment of the debtor's and his family's need for housing, in a manner that takes account of the creditor's rights and provides protection for the debtor in his private dwelling. 1( Paragraph h pursuant to Law No. 57 of 1989