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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 9-11-101. Marriage a civil contract — Consent of parties - Marriage is considered in law a civil contract to which...
§ 9-11-102. Minimum age — Parental consent — Definition - (a) Every male who has arrived at the full age...
§ 9-11-103. Minimum age — Exception - (a) (1) If an application for a marriage license is...
§ 9-11-104. Minimum age — Lack of parental consent or misrepresentation of age — Annulment - In all cases in which the consent of the parent...
§ 9-11-105. Marriage of underage parties voidable - (a) The marriage of any male under the full age...
§ 9-11-106. Incestuous marriages — Penalties for entering into or solemnizing - (a) All marriages between parents and children, including grandparents and...
§ 9-11-107. Validity of foreign marriages - (a) All marriages contracted outside this state that would be...
§ 9-11-108. Presumption of spouse's death — Validity of subsequent marriage - In all cases in which any husband abandons his wife,...
§ 9-11-109. Validity of same-sex marriages - Marriage shall be only between a man and a woman....
Subchapter 2 - License and Ceremony
§ 9-11-201. Licenses required - (a) All persons hereafter contracting marriage in this state are...
§ 9-11-202. Form of license - (a) The license may be in the following form: (b)...
§ 9-11-203. Issuance by clerks - (a) The clerks of the county courts of the several...
§ 9-11-204. Issuance of license unlawfully — Penalty - If any county clerk in this state shall issue any...
§ 9-11-205. Notice of intention to wed — Noncompliance, penalties, and effect - (a) No marriage license shall be issued by the clerks...
§ 9-11-206. Clerk's fees - The fee prescribed by law for the issuance of the...
§ 9-11-207. Applicants for marriage licenses to be sober - It shall be unlawful for any clerk who is authorized...
§ 9-11-208. License not issued to persons of the same sex - (a) (1) (A) It is the public policy of the...
§ 9-11-209. Proof of age — Parental consent - (a) Any person applying for the license to marry another...
§ 9-11-210. Bond of applicant - (a) Any person applying for a license under the provisions...
§ 9-11-211. Military personnel — Waiver of certain license requirements — Proceedings - (a) (1) Upon written petition being filed with the county...
§ 9-11-212. Application without other's consent — Penalties — Damages - (a) If any person shall apply for and obtain a...
§ 9-11-213. Persons who may solemnize marriages - (a) For the purpose of being registered and perpetuating the...
§ 9-11-214. Recordation of credentials of clerical character - (a) No minister of the gospel or priest of any...
§ 9-11-215. Marriage ceremony - (a) When marriages are solemnized by a minister of the...
§ 9-11-216. Solemnization contrary to law — Penalty - (a) Any person who presumes to solemnize marriage in this...
§ 9-11-217. Failure to sign and return license at time of marriage — Penalty - (a) Any person who fails to officially sign and return...
§ 9-11-218. Return of executed license to clerk — Effect on bond - (a) Any person obtaining a license under the provisions of...
§ 9-11-219. False return or record — Penalty - If any person authorized to solemnize any marriage in this...
§ 9-11-220. Duty of clerk on return of license — Issuance of certificate - (a) Upon the return of any license officially signed as...
§ 9-11-221. Certified copies of record as evidence - The books of marriages and clerical credentials to be kept...
Subchapter 3 - Marriage Contracts Generally
§ 9-11-301. Execution of contract - All marriage contracts whereby any estate, real or personal, is...
§ 9-11-302. Acknowledgment or proof - Marriage contracts shall be acknowledged or proven before a court...
§ 9-11-303. Recordation — Effect - (a) Every marriage contract whereby any real estate is conveyed...
§ 9-11-304. Effect of unrecorded contract - No marriage contract shall be valid or affect property, except...
§ 9-11-305. Contract or copy as evidence — Conclusiveness - (a) Marriage contracts duly proved or acknowledged, certified, or recorded...
Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Premarital Agreement Act
§ 9-11-401. Definitions - (1) “Premarital agreement” means an agreement between prospective spouses made...
§ 9-11-402. Formalities — Definition - (a) A premarital agreement must be in writing and signed...
§ 9-11-403. Content - (a) Parties to a premarital agreement may contract with respect...
§ 9-11-404. Effect of marriage - A premarital agreement becomes effective upon marriage.
§ 9-11-405. Amendment or revocation - After marriage, a premarital agreement may be amended or revoked...
§ 9-11-406. Enforcement - (a) A premarital agreement is not enforceable if the party...
§ 9-11-407. Enforcement — Void marriage - If a marriage is determined to be void, an agreement...
§ 9-11-408. Limitations of actions - Any statute of limitations applicable to an action asserting a...
§ 9-11-409. Application and construction - This subchapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its...
§ 9-11-410. Short title - This subchapter may be cited as the “Arkansas Premarital Agreement...
§ 9-11-411. Severability - If any provision of this subchapter or its application to...
§ 9-11-412. Time of taking effect - This subchapter takes effect July 20, 1987, and applies to...
§ 9-11-413. Repeal - The following acts and parts of acts are repealed: (a)...
Subchapter 5 - Rights and Property of Married Persons
§ 9-11-501. Construction of this section and §§ 9-11-509 — 9-11-514 - The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law...
§ 9-11-503. Rights generally - (a) A married person may bargain, sell, assign, and transfer...
§ 9-11-505. Control of separate real and personal property - (a) The real and personal property that any married person...
§ 9-11-506. Spouses not liable for each other's antenuptial debts - In all marriages solemnized after February 1, 1899, neither spouse...
§ 9-11-507. Separate property of one spouse not liable for other spouse's debts - The property of any male or female, whether real or...
§ 9-11-508. Contracts concerning separate property of one spouse not binding on other spouse - No bargain or contract made by any married person, in...
§ 9-11-509. Schedule of separate personal property — Filing — Effect - (a) A married person owning any separate personal property may...
§ 9-11-510. Form of schedule - That schedule of a married person's separate property may be...
§ 9-11-511. Filing of schedule by person selling or giving property — Effect of recording conveyance or will - (a) Any persons who shall bona fide sell or give...
§ 9-11-512. Effect of failure to file schedule - The separate estate and property of a married person shall...
§ 9-11-513. Control of one spouse's separate property by other spouse — Presumption of agency or trusteeship - The fact that a married person permits his or her...
§ 9-11-514. Settlements in equity - This section and §§ 9-11-501 and 9-11-509 — 9-11-513 shall...
§ 9-11-516. Doctrine of necessaries — Abolished - (a) (1) Absent express authority, neither a husband nor a...
Subchapter 6 - Rights in Real Estate of Insane Spouse
§ 9-11-601. Obligations to support spouse unaffected by subchapter - Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to release the...
§ 9-11-602. Sale of real estate free of dower or curtesy — Petition - (a) (1) Any person owning lands in this state and...
§ 9-11-603. Sale of real estate free of dower or curtesy — Order and deposit - (a) Upon the hearing of the petition, if the court...
§ 9-11-604. Setting apart dower or curtesy as life estate in certain lands - (a) (1) Any person owning lands in this state whose...
Subchapter 7 - Validating Acts
§ 9-11-701. Persons acting for clerk - (a) The acts and deeds of all persons acting for...
§ 9-11-702. Marriages performed by mayors - All marriage ceremonies performed by mayors in the State of...
§ 9-11-703. Recordation of credentials of clerical character — Applicability of § 9-11-214 - (a) Section 9-11-214(a) and (b) shall not apply to those...
§ 9-11-704. Marriages solemnized out of county - (a) All marriages between persons authorized to contract marriage and...
§ 9-11-705. Marriages solemnized by municipal court judges - All marriages solemnized by municipal court judges prior to July...
§ 9-11-706. Marriage before entry of divorce decree - (a) It is the intent of this section to validate...
Subchapter 8 - Covenant Marriage Act
§ 9-11-801. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 9-11-802. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Authorized counseling” means marital...
§ 9-11-803. Covenant marriage - (a) (1) A covenant marriage is a marriage entered into...
§ 9-11-804. Content of declaration of intent - (a) A declaration of intent to contract a covenant marriage...
§ 9-11-805. Form of affidavit - The following is the suggested form of the affidavit that...
§ 9-11-806. Other applicable rules - A covenant marriage shall be governed by all of the...
§ 9-11-807. Applicability to already married couples - (a) A married couple, upon submission of a copy of...
§ 9-11-808. Divorce or separation - (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary and subsequent...
§ 9-11-809. Suit against spouse — Separation - (a) Unless judicially separated, spouses in a covenant marriage may...
§ 9-11-810. Effects of separation - (a) Judicial separation in a covenant marriage does not dissolve...
§ 9-11-811. Informational pamphlet - (a) The Administrative Office of the Courts shall promulgate an...