Arkansas Code Title 28, Subtitle 2, Chapter 9, Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Inheritance Code of 1969

• § 28-9-201 - Title.
  This subchapter may be cited as the "Arkansas Inheritance Code of 1969".
• § 28-9-202 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) "Descendants" means a person's children, grandchildren, and all others, however remotely related to such a person, who...
• § 28-9-203 - Intestate Succession Generally.
  (a) Any part of the estate of a decedent not effectively disposed of by his or her will shall pass to his or her...
• § 28-9-204 - Per Capita Distribution.
  Heirs will take per capita in the following circumstances: (1) (A) If all members of the class who inherit real or personal property from...
• § 28-9-205 - Per Stirpes Distribution.
  (a) (1) Heirs will take "per stirpes" if the intestate is predeceased by one (1) or more persons who would have been entitled to...
• § 28-9-206 - Interests Transmissible by Inheritance.
  (a) Heirs may inherit every right, title, and interest not terminated by the intestate's death in real or personal property owned by an intestate...
• § 28-9-207 - Heirs As Tenants in Common.
  When real or personal property is transmitted by inheritance to two (2) or more persons, they will take the same as tenants in common....
• § 28-9-208 - Male Not Preferred Over Female.
  The common law principle that in the matter of inheritance the male will be preferred over the female shall constitute no part of the...
• § 28-9-209 - Legitimacy of Child -- Effect.
  (a) (1) If the parents of a child have lived together as man and wife and, before the birth of their child, have participated...
• § 28-9-210 - Posthumous Heirs.
  (a) Posthumous descendants of the intestate conceived before his or her death but born thereafter shall inherit in the same manner as if born...
• § 28-9-211 - Alienage.
  (a) No person is disqualified to inherit, or transmit by inheritance, real or personal property because he or she is or has been an...
• § 28-9-212 - Computing Degrees of Consanguinity.
  (a) (1) In computing the degrees of relationship between any two (2) kinsmen who are not related in a direct line of ascent or...
• § 28-9-213 - Kinsmen of the Half Blood.
  An intestate's kinsmen of the half blood will inherit the intestate's real or personal property to the same extent as if they were the...
• § 28-9-214 - Tables of Descents.
  The heritable estate of an intestate as defined in § 28-9-206 shall pass as follows upon the intestate's death: (1) First, to the children...
• § 28-9-215 - Devolution Where No Heir Under § 28-9-214.
  If an heir to the heritable estate, or some portion thereof, cannot be found under § 28-9-214, then the portion of the heritable estate...
• § 28-9-216 - Advancements.
  (a) If a person dies intestate as to all his or her estate, property which he or she gave in his or her lifetime...
• § 28-9-217 - Debts to Decedent.
  A debt owed to the decedent shall not be charged against the intestate share of any person except the debtor. If the debtor fails...
• § 28-9-218 - Doctrine of First Purchaser Abolished.
  This subchapter is intended to abolish the common law rule of the blood of the first purchaser under which in the case of successive...
• § 28-9-219 - Distinction Between Ancestral Estates and New Acquisitions Abolished.
  (a) Only for the purposes of intestate succession, the distinction between "ancestral estate" and "new acquisitions" in respect to real estate owned by an...
• § 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 an otherwise effective testamentary conveyance, in form or in effect, to the heirs or...
• § 28-9-221 - Child Conceived After Death of Parent.
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, a child conceived after the death of a decedent who specifically authorized the decedent's...

Last modified: November 15, 2016