This subchapter is intended to abolish the common law rule of the blood of the first purchaser under which in the case of successive inheritances of land the intestate's property would descend only to such of his or her heirs as were of the blood of the next preceding ancestor in the line of successive descents who acquired title by purchase, that is to say, by any method other than descent.
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