Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 157

The rule established in the Maliki school that a father of sound judgment may forcibly marry off his adult virgin daughter without her consent. The legislature departed from it in Law 51/1984 in favor of requiring a wife between natural puberty and the completion of her twenty-fifth year to participate with her guardian in choosing the husband. Consequence: a marriage contracted by this wife's guardian is a valid marriage whose effectiveness is suspended pending her ratification and becomes void if she does not ratify it.