(a)
(1) Absent express authority, neither a husband nor a wife is liable for the other's debt obligations, including those for necessaries.
(2) As used in this section, “necessaries” means all such things required for the sustenance of a person, including food, clothing, medicine, and habitation.
(b) The doctrine of necessaries, as it is known in the common law, is hereby abolished.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations
Subchapter 5 - Rights and Property of Married Persons
§ 9-11-501. Construction of this section and §§ 9-11-509 — 9-11-514
§ 9-11-505. Control of separate real and personal property
§ 9-11-506. Spouses not liable for each other's antenuptial debts
§ 9-11-507. Separate property of one spouse not liable for other spouse's debts
§ 9-11-508. Contracts concerning separate property of one spouse not binding on other spouse
§ 9-11-509. Schedule of separate personal property — Filing — Effect
§ 9-11-512. Effect of failure to file schedule