KUWAIT CITY, March 12: In a first-of-its-kind legal precedent in child visitation cases, the Family Court’s Ja’afari Circuit ruled that a father has the right to visit his daughter and have her stay overnight at his residence, despite her being in her mother’s custody. This ruling marks an exception to the existing Ja’afari law, which typically prohibits a child from spending the night with a non-custodial parent. Lawyer Hawra Al-Habib, who represented the father, explained that the legal provision prohibiting a child from spending the night with a non-custodial parent applies only to children who are below the age at which they can make their own decisions. It does not apply to children who have surpassed that age.