Arkansas Code Title 9, Subtitle 2, Chapter 12, Subchapter 3 - Actions for Divorce or Alimony

• § 9-12-301 - Grounds for Divorce.
  (a) A plaintiff who seeks to dissolve and set aside a covenant marriage shall state in his or her petition for divorce that he...
• § 9-12-302 - Equitable Proceedings.
  The action for alimony or divorce shall be by equitable proceedings.
• § 9-12-303 - Venue -- Service of Process.
  (a) The proceedings shall be in the county where the complainant resides unless the complainant is a nonresident of the State of Arkansas and...
• § 9-12-304 - Pleadings -- Interrogatories.
  (a) The pleadings are not required to be verified by affidavit.(b) However, either party may file interrogatories to the other in regard to any...
• § 9-12-305 - No Judgment Pro Confesso.
  The statements of the complaint for a divorce shall not be taken as true because of the defendant's failure to answer or admission of...
• § 9-12-306 - Corroboration.
  (a) In uncontested divorce suits, corroboration of the plaintiff's grounds for divorce shall not be necessary or required.(b) In contested suits, corroboration of the...
• § 9-12-307 - Matters that Must Be Proved.
  (a) To obtain a divorce, the plaintiff must prove, but need not allege, in addition to a legal cause of divorce: (1) (A) A...
• § 9-12-308 - Effect of Collusion, Consent, or Equal Guilt of Parties.
  If it appears to the court that the adultery or other offense complained of has been occasioned by the collusion of the parties or...
• § 9-12-309 - Maintenance and Attorney's Fees -- Interest.
  (a) (1) During the pendency of an action for divorce, whether absolute or from bed and board, separate maintenance, or alimony, the court may:...
• § 9-12-310 - Waiting Period Before Rendition of Decree.
  Unless the parties shall have lived separate and apart from each other for a period of twelve (12) months next before the filing of...
• § 9-12-311 - Legitimacy of Children Not Affected.
  The injured party may apply for a decree of divorce, but no divorce shall affect the legitimacy of the children born previously to entering...
• § 9-12-312 - Alimony -- Child Support -- Bond -- Method of Payment.
  (a) (1) When a decree is entered, the court shall make an order concerning the care of the children, if there are any, and...
• § 9-12-313 - Enforcement of Separation Agreements and Decrees of Court.
  Courts of equity may enforce the performance of written agreements between husband and wife made and entered into in contemplation of either separation or...
• § 9-12-314 - Modification of Allowance for Alimony and Maintenance -- Child Support.
  (a) The court, upon application of either party, may make such alterations from time to time, as to the allowance of alimony and maintenance...
• § 9-12-315 - Division of Property -- Definition.
  (a) At the time a divorce decree is entered: (1) (A) All marital property shall be distributed one-half (1/2) to each party unless the...
• § 9-12-316 - Property Settlements.
  In any divorce suit in which a written property settlement involving real property is entered into by the parties and reference is made to...
• § 9-12-317 - Dissolution of Estates by the Entirety or Survivorship.
  (a) Hereafter, when any circuit court in this state renders a final decree of divorce, any estate by the entirety or survivorship in real...
• § 9-12-318 - Restoration of Name.
  In all cases when the court finds that either party is entitled to a divorce, the court may restore the wife to the name...
• § 9-12-319 - Nonresident Defendants -- Warning Orders -- Entry of Decree.
  In all divorce actions pending or filed in any of the circuit courts of this state where a warning order has been published against...
• § 9-12-320 - Proceedings Subsequent to Decree -- Change of Venue.
  (a) (1) The court where the final decree of divorce is rendered shall retain jurisdiction for all matters following the entry of the decree....
• § 9-12-321 - Annulment of Decree of Divorce.
  The proceedings for annulling a final judgment for a divorce from the bond of matrimony shall be a joint petition of the parties, verified...
• § 9-12-322 - Divorcing Parents to Attend Parenting Class.
  (a) When the parties to a divorce action have minor children residing with one (1) or both parents, the court, prior to or after...
• § 9-12-323 - Joint Credit Card Accounts.
  (a) (1) After a court has determined or approved a property settlement agreement establishing the party responsible for any joint credit card account debt...
• § 9-12-324 - Decree Dissolving a Covenant Marriage.
  In all divorce decrees that dissolve a covenant marriage created under the Covenant Marriage Act of 2001, § 9-11-801 et seq., the court shall...
• § 9-12-325 - Condonation Abolished.
  (a) The defense of condonation to any action for absolute divorce or divorce from bed and board is abolished.(b) The abolition of the defense...

Last modified: November 15, 2016