(a) Only for the purposes of intestate succession, the distinction between “ancestral estate” and “new acquisitions” in respect to real estate owned by an intestate is abolished.
(b) The devolution of real estate and personal property which the intestate acquired by gift, devise, or descent from some ancestor shall be controlled by the same rules which apply to the devolution of real estate and personal property acquired by the intestate in any other manner.
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