Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 453

The spouses' financial rights where separation on grounds of harm is requested. The criterion for determining them is mistreatment by either of them of the other, mutual mistreatment, or the inability to identify the offending party among them. - Separation without compensation. Its meaning and implication. - The wife's right to consolatory maintenance. Its forfeiture where she requests separation and the offending party cannot be identified. Her right to collect deferred dower and waiting-period maintenance. Its forfeiture where all the mistreatment is established to have been on her part. - Understanding the facts of the action and assessing its evidence, including witness statements and arbitrators' reports in a separation action. Within the authority of the court of fact. Condition thereof. Example.