Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 433

Dissolution of a valid marriage after consummation. Its implication. The obligation to pay consolatory compensation. Absence of a provision concerning consolatory compensation for a woman divorced after seclusion. Its effect. Recourse in this regard to the well-known position in the school of Imam Malik. The implication of this. A divorcing husband, in a divorce after seclusion, is not compelled to pay consolatory compensation to a divorced woman with whom he has not consummated the marriage.