Arkansas Code Title 9, Subtitle 2, Chapter 11, 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 shall be strictly construed shall have no application to this section and §§ 9-11-509...
• § 9-11-502 - [Repealed.]
• § 9-11-503 - Rights Generally.
  (a) A married person may bargain, sell, assign, and transfer his or her separate personal property, carry on any trade or business, and perform...
• § 9-11-504 - [Repealed.]
• § 9-11-505 - Control of Separate Real and Personal Property.
  (a) The real and personal property that any married person now owns, or has had conveyed to him or her by any person in...
• § 9-11-506 - Spouses Not Liable for Each Other's Antenuptial Debts.
  In all marriages solemnized after February 1, 1899, neither spouse shall be held to be liable for the antenuptial debts of the other, except...
• § 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 personal, and whether acquired before or after marriage in that person's own right, shall...
• § 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 respect to his or her sole and separate property or any property that may...
• § 9-11-509 - Schedule of Separate Personal Property -- Filing -- Effect.
  (a) A married person owning any separate personal property may make a schedule of the property and file it in the recorder's office of...
• § 9-11-510 - Form of Schedule.
  That schedule of a married person's separate property may be in the following form: Click here to view form
• § 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 any property to a married person may schedule and record the sale or gift...
• § 9-11-512 - Effect of Failure to File Schedule.
  The separate estate and property of a married person shall not be forfeited nor shall any rights and title thereto be prejudiced by a...
• § 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 spouse to have the custody, control, and management of separate property shall not of...
• § 9-11-514 - Settlements in Equity.
  This section and §§ 9-11-501 and 9-11-509 -- 9-11-513 shall not be construed to abridge the existing jurisdiction and powers of a court of...
• § 9-11-515 - [Repealed.]
• § 9-11-516 - Doctrine of Necessaries -- Abolished.
  (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...

Last modified: November 15, 2016