Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 827

A foreign judgment rendered in matters of capacity and status. It has res judicata effect before Kuwaiti courts without requiring an enforcement formula. 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. - 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 concerning personal status, having become final, and having been issued by a body possessing - 179 - The right jurisdiction to issue it under its law, and not contravening the public policy of the State of Kuwait. Its res judicata effect may be invoked and it may be relied upon before Kuwaiti courts without affixing an enforcement formula to it. The reason therefor.