Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 576

The judge’s authority to decree divorce under the Ja‘fari school. Condition for its existence: the husband’s disobedience of the Sharia judge’s order to live with the wife honorably or release her graciously. - Ruling to set aside the appealed judgment and decree divorce because of mistreatment by the husband, without the judgment addressing the wife’s statement that she was unwilling to live with the husband. An error in the application of the law requiring its cassation.