Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3130

Gift. Revocation is impermissible except in the case of a gift by parents to their child. Exception. Revocation is permissible with judicial authorisation if the donor relies on an acceptable excuse. Its condition. Absence of any of the impediments to revocation exhaustively specified in Article 539 of the Civil Code. - A gift from one spouse to the other. Revocation is barred so long as the marriage subsists. - Assessment of what constitutes a breach by the donee, through her acts and conduct, of her duties toward the donor, and the donor's inability to provide himself with a suitable livelihood or to fulfil the maintenance obligations imposed upon him by law toward others. Independently determined by the court of merits. Condition thereof. - 610 - Gift - The challenged judgment's inference, within its discretionary authority, of the absence of ingratitude or repudiation by the first respondent justifying the appellant's revocation of his gift to her, and of his not being unable to maintain himself and those whose maintenance is incumbent upon him or to provide a residence of his own, and its conclusion that none of the circumstances permitting revocation of a gift existed. The challenge thereto. A factual argument. It may not be raised before the Court of Cassation.