Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 989

Application of the Ja'fari school. Its condition. The litigants' common adherence to this school. Their difference in school. Its implication. Application of Law No. 51 of 1984 concerning Personal Status. - 510 - Personal Status - The right to see a young child is confined to the parents and grandparents alone, to the exclusion of others. Article 196/a of Law 51 of 1984. The judgment's contravention thereof by allowing the paternal aunt to see her brother's daughter. A violation of the law requiring its cassation.