Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 390

Personal Status Law 51/1984. Its scope of application as to persons. Those to whom the Maliki school applies, to the exclusion of others. - The rule in the Ja‘fari school is that the child belongs to the marital bed, so a man may not deny a child born in his marital bed where the minimum gestation period is fulfilled and its maximum period has not been exceeded, or he has acknowledged the child. The effect thereof. An action denying parentage may not be heard, whether by li‘an or otherwise.