Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 935

A foreign judgment issued in matters of capacity and status. Has res judicata effect before Kuwaiti courts without requiring an enforcement endorsement. The reason. It is a legal fact that must be recognized and does not require execution against property or intervention by public authority for its compulsory enforcement. - Prior issuance of a judgment by the Beirut Sharia Court terminating the appellant's custody of the minor and placing him with his father—the respondent—and that judgment concerning personal status, having become final, and having been issued by a body competent to issue it under its own law, and not conflicting with the public policy of the State of Kuwait. Its binding effect may be invoked and it may be relied upon before Kuwaiti courts without an enforcement endorsement. The reason for this.