The common law principle that in the matter of inheritance the male will be preferred over the female shall constitute no part of the Arkansas law of inheritance.
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