(a) When any property is limited, mediately or immediately, in an otherwise effective testamentary conveyance, in form or in effect, to the heirs or next of kin of the conveyor, or to a person or persons who on the death of the conveyor are some or all of his or her heirs or next of kin, the conveyees acquire the property by purchase and not by descent.
(b) When any property is limited in an otherwise effective conveyance inter vivos, in form or in effect, to the heirs or next of kin of the conveyor, which conveyance creates one (1) or more prior interests in favor of a person or persons in existence, the conveyance operates in favor of such heirs or next of kin by purchase and not by 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