Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 685

A foreign judgment rendered in matters of capacity and status. Has the force of res judicata before the courts of Kuwait without requiring an enforcement formula. The reason therefor: it is a legal fact that must be recognised and does not require execution against property or intervention by public authority for its coercive enforcement. - A prior judgment by the Beirut Sharia Court depriving the appellant of custody of the minor and placing him with his father—the respondent—and that judgment having been rendered in matters of personal status, having become final, and having been issued by a body having jurisdiction to issue it under its law, and not contravening the public policy of the State of Kuwait. Its authority may be invoked and it may be adopted before Kuwaiti courts without granting it an enforcement formula. The reason therefor.