Court grants young man right to inherit

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 2: The Family Court ruled in favor of the paternity test of a young man and granted him the right to obtain identification documents after exceeding 20 years of age, in addition to the right to inherit after the death of his father.

According to the case files, the plaintiff filed a paternity case after the death of his father and his mother reached the old age, before which the plaintiff did not possess any identification to prove his paternity claim.

Lawyer for the plaintiff, Attorney Jarrah Al-Enezi, argued that his client was conceived in a legal marriage so he deserves identification document which proves his paternal relations with his late father, in addition to the right to be the legal heir of his late father.

Al-Enezi presented to the court the marriage certificate which proved his client’s father and mother were legally married, and that his birth happened when his parents were still together, which gave him full right to affirm both paternal and maternal relationship with the elderly mother and the late father.

Ruling upheld: The Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of the Court of First Instance that acquitted a citizen of physically attacking his colleague in a ministry during working hours. The Public Prosecution charged the citizen for assaulting on his colleague through which the latter sustained injuries as indicated in medical report obtained from a hospital and Forensics, adding the department urged the court to punish the suspect according to the provisions of Article 2/162 of the penal code.

Lawyer En’am Haider in defense of her client argued that there was no strong evidence to prove that the defendant truly attacked the plaintiff. She pointed to inconsistencies in the technical report and testimonies of witnesses, showing the plaintiff had long been planning to set up her client.