Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 414

Assessment of maintenance of all kinds, its increase or decrease, the financial means of the person obliged to pay it, and the female custodian's need for a servant. Matters of fact. - Lapse of spousal maintenance. It occurs only after her disobedience has been established. - The means of proving disobedience. A procedural matter. Kuwaiti law must be applied thereto as the law of the forum before which the dispute is brought. - A wife's disobedience. It is established only by her refusal to comply with the final judgment requiring obedience. Article 87/9 of Law 51/1984.