When real or personal property is transmitted by inheritance to two (2) or more persons, they will take the same as tenants in common. However, when personal property is distributed in separate units by a personal representative, each distributee will hold his or her distributed part in severalty.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships
Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution
Chapter 9 - Intestate Succession
Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Inheritance Code of 1969
§ 28-9-203. Intestate succession generally
§ 28-9-204. Per capita distribution
§ 28-9-205. Per stirpes distribution
§ 28-9-206. Interests transmissible by inheritance
§ 28-9-207. Heirs as tenants in common
§ 28-9-208. Male not preferred over female
§ 28-9-209. Legitimacy of child — Effect
§ 28-9-212. Computing degrees of consanguinity
§ 28-9-213. Kinsmen of the half blood
§ 28-9-214. Tables of descents
§ 28-9-215. Devolution where no heir under § 28-9-214
§ 28-9-218. Doctrine of first purchaser abolished
§ 28-9-219. Distinction between ancestral estates and new acquisitions abolished
§ 28-9-220. Conveyance to heirs or next of kin — Doctrine of worthier title abolished