Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1075

Understanding the facts of the action, assessing evidence, and awarding maintenance of its various kinds and increasing and reducing it. - 524 - Personal Status A matter for the trial court. Its condition. - The Court of Appeal may adopt an assessment of maintenance different from that of the court of first instance. Its response to that court's evidence. Unnecessary. It suffices that its view has an established basis in the papers and is justified. - The litigants' request to conduct an investigation in the action to prove particular facts: not a right of theirs. The court may disregard it whenever it finds in the papers sufficient material to form its conviction. Example concerning the Court of Appeal's increase of the spousal maintenance awarded by the court of first instance and its failure to grant the request to refer the appeal for investigation to prove and the validity of the appellant's defense.