Arkansas Code
Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution
Chapter 9 - Intestate Succession

Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Inheritance Code of 1969

§ 28-9-201. Title - This subchapter may be cited as the “Arkansas Inheritance Code...

§ 28-9-202. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Descendants” means a...

§ 28-9-203. Intestate succession generally - (a) Any part of the estate of a decedent not...

§ 28-9-204. Per capita distribution - Heirs will take per capita in the following circumstances: (1)...

§ 28-9-205. Per stirpes distribution - (a) (1) Heirs will take “per stirpes” if the intestate...

§ 28-9-206. Interests transmissible by inheritance - (a) Heirs may inherit every right, title, and interest not...

§ 28-9-207. Heirs as tenants in common - When real or personal property is transmitted by inheritance to...

§ 28-9-208. Male not preferred over female - The common law principle that in the matter of inheritance...

§ 28-9-209. Legitimacy of child — Effect - (a) (1) If the parents of a child have lived...

§ 28-9-210. Posthumous heirs - (a) Posthumous descendants of the intestate conceived before his or...

§ 28-9-211. Alienage - (a) No person is disqualified to inherit, or transmit by...

§ 28-9-212. Computing degrees of consanguinity - (a) (1) In computing the degrees of relationship between any...

§ 28-9-213. Kinsmen of the half blood - An intestate's kinsmen of the half blood will inherit the...

§ 28-9-214. Tables of descents - The heritable estate of an intestate as defined in §...

§ 28-9-215. Devolution where no heir under § 28-9-214 - If an heir to the heritable estate, or some portion...

§ 28-9-216. Advancements - (a) If a person dies intestate as to all his...

§ 28-9-217. Debts to decedent - A debt owed to the decedent shall not be charged...

§ 28-9-218. Doctrine of first purchaser abolished - This subchapter is intended to abolish the common law rule...

§ 28-9-219. Distinction between ancestral estates and new acquisitions abolished - (a) Only for the purposes of intestate succession, the distinction...

§ 28-9-220. Conveyance to heirs or next of kin — Doctrine of worthier title abolished - (a) When any property is limited, mediately or immediately, in...

§ 28-9-221. Child conceived after death of parent - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary,...