Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 552

Both parties to the action being Lebanese. The Lebanese Family Rights Law must be applied. Implication thereof. The law of the spouses' nationality during the marriage and before divorce or before the action was brought applies to divorce, judicial divorce, and separation. Basis thereof. - The court's undertaking arbitration procedures and concluding that the cause of discord is attributable to the husband. Separation must be without forfeiture of any of the wife's Sharia rights. Example. - 424 - Personal Status