Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 916

Judgments rendered in certain personal status matters are susceptible to change and alteration because of changed circumstances, including maintenance and custody. The reason for this: they have temporary res judicata effect. Those judgments retain their res judicata effect so long as their grounds and the circumstances in which they were rendered have not changed. Assessment of whether circumstances have changed - 496 - Personal Status or remained as they were. A matter for the trial court, subject to the supervision of the Court of Cassation. The condition for this. An example of changed circumstances in which the judgment obliging the appellant to pay the price of a car for the female custodian was rendered, thereby extinguishing that judgment's res judicata effect.