Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4482

The general rule regarding judgments rendered in personal-status matters susceptible to change and alteration is that they have temporary binding authority. This authority continues so long as the circumstances of the judgment remain unchanged. - Dismissal of a previous action by the female custodian seeking entitlement to take the necessary measures to manage the affairs - 826 - Civil Procedure of the female minor at all educational and academic stages without referring to the guardian of the person, on the basis that the choice of the type of education is the latter’s right and that there is no evidence of abuse by him in this regard, pursuant to Article 210 of Law 51 of 1984 concerning personal status, without the issue of transferring the female minor from one school to another being raised. The challenged judgment’s conclusion rejecting the plea that the action may not be heard because it has previously been adjudicated, on the basis that the circumstances and reasons in which the first judgment was rendered had changed through the guardian of the person’s intention to transfer the female minor from her current school to another school in abuse of his right. Does not vitiate it.