Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3055

The court of merits being bound by the claims submitted by the parties in the action does not prevent it from adjudicating what is necessarily and actually encompassed within those claims. A claim for spousal maintenance includes a claim for maintenance during the waiting period. A wife's claim for spousal maintenance before the court of first instance. Her claim for waiting-period maintenance before the Court of Appeal after her husband's divorce of her has been established. Is not considered a new claim.