Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 398

Personal Status Law 51/1984. Its scope of application as regards persons. Those to whom the Maliki school applies, to the exclusion of others. - The rule in the Jaʿfari 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 has been met and its maximum has not been exceeded, or he has acknowledged the child. The effect thereof. An action to deny lineage shall not be heard, whether by liʿan or otherwise.