Arkansas Code Title 28, Subtitle 4, Chapter 39, Subchapter 3 - Assignment of Dower and Curtesy

• § 28-39-301 - Assignment by Heir -- Acceptance.
  (a) It shall be the duty of the heir at law of any estate of which the surviving spouse is entitled to dower or...
• § 28-39-302 - Assignment by Heir -- Grant of Severance Rights Required.
  (a) The heirs in any estate cannot assign or secure an assignment of dower or curtesy in lands in this state unless and until...
• § 28-39-303 - Proceedings for Allotment.
  (a) If dower or curtesy is not assigned to the surviving spouse within one (1) year after the death of his or her spouse,...
• § 28-39-304 - Assignment by Commissioners.
  (a) In all cases when it orders and decrees dower or curtesy to any surviving spouse, the court shall appoint three (3) commissioners of...
• § 28-39-305 - Rental of Indivisible Property.
  In cases in which lands or tenements will not permit division, the court, being satisfied of that fact or on the report of the...
• § 28-39-306 - Sale of Property Indivisible Without Prejudice.
  In proceedings in the circuit court for the allotment of dower or curtesy, when it appears to the court that dower or curtesy cannot...
• § 28-39-307 - Rights of Surviving Spouse When Dower or Curtesy Land Alienated by Heir.
  If the heir alienates lands of which a surviving spouse is entitled to dower or curtesy, he or she shall still be decreed his...
• § 28-39-308 - Surviving Spouse's Bequest of Growing Crop.
  A surviving spouse may bequeath the crop in the ground of the land held by him or her in curtesy or dower at the...
• § 28-39-309 - Recovery of Dower or Curtesy Lands Taken From Surviving Spouse -- Damages.
  If the land assigned and laid off to any surviving spouse is deforced from his or her possession, the surviving spouse shall have an...

Last modified: November 15, 2016