Article 24 of Code of Civil Procedure

Kuwaiti courts shall have jurisdiction to hear actions brought against a foreigner who has no domicile or place of residence in Kuwait in the following cases: a- If he has an elected domicile in Kuwait. b- If the action concerns real or movable property situated in Kuwait, an obligation that arose, was performed, or was required to be performed therein, or a bankruptcy declared therein. c- If the action is an objection to a marriage contract intended to be concluded before a Kuwaiti notary. d- If the action concerns a request for annulment of marriage, judicial divorce, or separation and is brought by a wife who lost Kuwaiti nationality through marriage, provided she has a domicile in Kuwait; or if the action is brought by a wife domiciled in Kuwait against her husband who had a domicile therein, provided the husband abandoned his wife and established his domicile abroad after the ground for annulment, judicial divorce, or separation arose, or was deported from Kuwait. e- If the action concerns a claim for maintenance for a mother or wife, provided they have a domicile in Kuwait, or for a minor residing therein. f- If the action concerns the parentage of a minor residing in Kuwait, or the deprivation, restriction, suspension, or restoration of guardianship over his person. g- If the action concerns a personal status matter and the plaintiff is a Kuwaiti or a foreigner domiciled in Kuwait, where the defendant has no known domicile (1) Repealed pursuant to Law No. 10 of 1996 Law Index 606 Home Page Law of Procedure Decree-Law No. 38 of 1980 promulgating the Civil and Commercial Procedure Law abroad, or where Kuwaiti law is applicable to the action. h- If the action concerns a matter of guardianship over property, provided that the minor or the person whose interdiction is sought has a domicile or place of residence in Kuwait, or the absentee's last domicile or place of residence was therein. i- If one of his co-defendants is Kuwaiti, or a foreigner having a domicile, place of residence, or elected domicile in Kuwait.