Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1288

An application to enforce a judgment issued by a foreign state. It is neither a level of litigation nor a challenge to the judgment. - The competent judicial authority in the state requested to enforce may not examine the merits, and the court of the state in which enforcement of the judgment is sought has no concern with verifying that the court which issued the judgment had subject-matter or territorial jurisdiction to adjudicate the dispute. The import of and reason for this. - The challenged judgment ordering enforcement of a judgment issued by the High Sharia Court of Appeal in the State of Bahrain and its endorsement with the legal executory formula in the State of Kuwait after it satisfied all the conditions prescribed in Article 199 of the Civil Procedure Law. Correct. - 571 - Personal Status Twenty Limitation of Personal Status Actions