Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 867

Custody of a minor under the Maliki school. Its termination upon puberty. The effect of such puberty. - The law’s failure to specify a particular age for puberty. Its implication. The judge may assess it. The condition for this. The judgment’s omission of an examination of the minor to ascertain the natural signs of puberty, and its treating the boy’s not having reached his fourteenth year as a basis for considering him still of an age for women’s custody. Vitiates it.