‘Pay ex-wife, five children’s dues’
Al-Seyassah Staff and Agencies KUWAIT CITY, Aug 8: The Court of Appeals ordered a financially-stable Kuwaiti citizen to pay a maintenance cost of KD 750 per month to his American-born exwife continuously for her five children, and the monthly salary of a housemaid, which is KD 100, the expenses for the recruitment of the housemaid, which is KD 1,000, and transportation expenses in monthly installments of KD 200 per month.
With this ruling, the Personal Status Court’s Appeals Chamber issued its ruling in favor of the “citizen of American origin” to amend the ruling issued by the Court of First Instance to obligate the husband “a well-off Kuwaiti citizen” to this alimony.
As per the lawsuit filed by Lawyer Fatima Al-Shatti on behalf of the “American-born” divorced woman, she said her client is divorced from the defendant, prompting her to file for alimony as her right, given that she bore five children for her ex-husband.
Al-Shatti demanded that the custody of her children be endorsed, obligate the defendant to refrain from contacting her client, and obligate him to pay her monthly expenses for food and clothing in proportion to the degree of his well-being from the date of filing the lawsuit, the monthly wages of a house-help for her and her children from the date of filing the lawsuit, and the expenses for the recruitment of the house-help as estimated by the court.
Work absence row: An internal circular in the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) stipulates punishing every employee who is absent from work on Ashura Day without a convincing excuse; while the signatories – Director General of KUNA Talal AlKandari and Deputy Director General for Administrative, Financial Affairs and Communications Abrar Al-Ghanim – submitted separate requests to Minister of Information and Culture and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi to relieve them of their duties, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
The daily obtained a copy of the requests in which Al-Kandari and AlGhanim did not mention the reason, but sources said the reason could be the Ashura circular. Immediately after the issuance of the circular, KUNA employees contacted the former lawmakers who discussed the issue with Al-Mutairi. The minister quickly stopped the issuance of circulars on attendance and absence without the approval of State authorities in charge of holidays and vacations, sources added.
Sources also revealed that Al-Mutairi assigned Muhammad Al-Mannai to carry out the duties of KUNA’s director general – an indication of approval of the aforementioned requests.