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AR Code § 16-60-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 60 - Venue|Subchapter 2 - Change of Venue|§ 16-60-206. Time for trial after change

 In all cases of change of venue, the action shall stand for trial in the court to which the change is made at the first term of the court which commences more than ten (10) days from the filing of the papers of the case in the office of the clerk of such court.
AR Code § 16-60-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 60 - Venue|Subchapter 2 - Change of Venue|§ 16-60-207. Domestic relations

 The venue of domestic relations cases in this state may be transferred between judicial districts in which either party resides, when agreed to by the parties to the action and the judges involved.
AR Code § 16-61-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-61-102. Married persons

 (a) If a husband and wife are sued together, the wife may defend:  (1) For her own right; and  (2) If the husband neglects to defend, for his right also.    (b) Where a husband, being a father, has deserted his family, the wife, being a mother, may prosecute or defend in his name any action which he might have prosecuted or defended and shall have the same powers and rights therein as he might have had.
AR Code § 16-61-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-61-107. Insanity during pendency of action — Guardian joined

 Where a party is judicially found to be of unsound mind during the pendency of an action, the fact being stated on the record:   (1) If he or she is the plaintiff, his or her guardian may be joined with him or her in the action as such;  (2) If he or she is the defendant, the plaintiff may, upon ten (10) days' notice thereof to his or her guardian, have an order making the guardian a defendant also.
AR Code § 16-61-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-61-109. Fees of guardian or attorney appointed to defend infant, insane person, or prisoner — Costs

 A guardian or attorney appointed on the application of the plaintiff to defend for an infant, person of unsound mind, or prisoner shall be allowed a reasonable fee for his or her services, to be paid by the plaintiff and taxed in the costs.
AR Code § 16-61-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-61-110. Foreign executors, administrators, and guardians

 Administrators, executors, and guardians appointed in any of the states, territories, or districts of the United States, under the laws thereof, may sue in any of the courts of this state, in their representative capacity, to the same and like effect as if the administrators, executors, and guardians had been qualified under the laws of this state. However, the administrators, executors, or guardians shall be required, before they shall institute a suit or proceeding, to execute the same bond as is required of other nonresidents by the laws of this state.
AR Code § 16-61-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-61-111. Joint and several obligors

 (a) Joint obligations shall be construed to have the same effect as joint and several obligations, and may be sued on, and recoveries had thereon in like manner.  (b) Persons severally liable upon the same contract, including parties to bills of exchange, promissory notes placed upon the footing of bills of exchange, common orders and checks, and sureties on the same or separate instruments, may all, or any of them, or the representatives of those persons who may have died, be included in the same action, at the plaintiff's option.  (c)  (1) Where two (2) or more persons are jointly bound by contract, the action thereon may be brought against all or any of them, at the plaintiff's option.  (2) Where any of the persons so bound are dead, the action may be brought against any or all of the survivors, with the representatives of all or any of the decedents, or against the latter, or any of them.  (3) Where all the persons so bound are dead, the action may be brought against the representatives of all or of any of them.  (4) An action or judgment against any one (1) or more of several persons jointly bound shall not be a bar to proceedings against the other.    (d) No creditor on any joint, or joint and several, obligation shall have more than one (1) satisfaction and costs in one (1) suit.
AR Code § 16-61-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-61-112. Assignments

 (a) When the assignment is not authorized by statute, the assignor must be a party as plaintiff or defendant.  (b) Where the right of the plaintiff is transferred or assigned during the pendency of the action, it may be continued in his or her name, or the court may allow the person to whom the transfer or assignment is made to be substituted in the action, proper orders being made as to security for the costs.
AR Code § 16-61-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act|§ 16-61-201. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Joint tortfeasor” means two (2) or more persons or entities who may have joint liability or several liability in tort for the same injury to person or property, whether or not judgment has been recovered against all or some of them; and  (2) “Several liability” means that each person or entity is liable only for the amount of damages allocated to that defendant in direct proportion to that defendant's percentage of fault.
AR Code § 16-61-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act|§ 16-61-202. Right of contribution — Accrual — Pro rata share

 (a) The right of contribution exists among joint tortfeasors.  (b) A joint tortfeasor is not entitled to a money judgment for contribution until he or she has by payment discharged the common liability or has paid more than his or her pro rata share of the common liability.  (c) The right of contribution is not limited to money damages but also includes the right to an allocation of fault as among all joint tortfeasors and the rights provided for in § 16-61-204.  (d) A joint tortfeasor who enters into a settlement with the injured person is not entitled to recover contribution from another joint tortfeasor whose liability to the injured person is not extinguished by the settlement.
AR Code § 16-61-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act|§ 16-61-204. Release — Effect on injured person's claim and on right of contribution

 (a) A release by the injured person of one (1) joint tortfeasor, whether before or after judgment, does not discharge the other joint tortfeasors unless the release so provides.  (b) A release by the injured person of a joint tortfeasor does not relieve the released tortfeasor from liability to make contribution to another joint tortfeasor unless the release is given before the right of the other joint tortfeasor to secure a money judgment for contribution has accrued and provides for a reduction, to the extent of the pro rata share of the released joint tortfeasor, of the injured person's damages recoverable against all other joint tortfeasors.  (c) When the injured person releases a joint tortfeasor, the injured person's damages recoverable against all the other joint tortfeasors shall be reduced by the greatest of the following:  (1) The amount of the consideration paid for the release;  (2) The pro rata share of the released joint tortfeasor's responsibility for the injured person's damages; or  (3) Any amount or proportion by which the release provides that the total claim shall be reduced.    (d) When the injured person releases a joint tortfeasor, the remaining defendants are entitled to a determination by the finder of fact of the released joint tortsfeasor's pro rata share of responsibility for the injured person's damages.
AR Code § 16-61-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act|§ 16-61-206. Indemnity

 This subchapter does not impair any right of indemnity under existing law.
AR Code § 16-61-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act|§ 16-61-208. Constitutionality

 If any provision of this subchapter, or the application thereof, to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the subchapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this subchapter are declared to be severable.
AR Code § 16-61-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act|§ 16-61-209. Uniformity of interpretation

 This subchapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states that enact it.
AR Code § 16-61-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act|§ 16-61-210. Short title

 This subchapter may be cited as the “Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act.”
AR Code § 16-61-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act|§ 16-61-211. Repeal

 All acts or parts of acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this subchapter are hereby repealed.
AR Code § 16-61-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 61 - Parties|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act|§ 16-61-212. Emergency clause

 Because the passage of this subchapter will invite parties litigant to pursue dilatory tactics in the courts of this state until its effective date in order that they may take advantage of its provisions, contrary to the public health, safety, and welfare, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this subchapter shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
AR Code § 16-63-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 63 - Pleadings And Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-63-101. Pretrial conferences

 (a) Actions taken at the conference, amendments allowed to the pleadings, rulings of the court, stipulations to be considered in evidence, and agreements made by the parties on any of the matters considered will be made a part of the record in the case.  (b) Objections may be made and exceptions saved at the time the order is made or when the action is called for trial unless the record entry is reached by agreement of all parties with full understanding of the subject matter agreed upon.  (c) For the purpose set out in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, if a pretrial conference is ordered by the court, it must be in the county where the cause is pending and after due and reasonable notice of the time and place is given to the litigants or their counsel.  (d) If the pretrial conference is conducted by agreement of the court and the litigants or their counsel, the pretrial conference may be held at any time and place in the judicial district which may be agreed upon.  (e) A defendant named in a complaint filed in any of the courts of this state who participates in a pretrial conference held pursuant to the provisions of this section or who avails himself or herself of any of the discovery procedures authorized under §§ 16-44-115 — 16-44-120 shall not thereby be deemed or held to have entered his or her general appearance in the cause, nor to have waived his or her right, otherwise existing, to object to the sufficiency of any process or the service thereof, or the jurisdiction of the court over his or her person, or to any defect in the venue as laid in the cause.
AR Code § 16-63-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 63 - Pleadings And Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-63-102. Deposits in court

 (a)  (1) Whenever, in the exercise of its authority, a court has ordered the deposit or delivery of money or other thing and the order is disobeyed, the court, besides punishing the disobedience, may make an order requiring the sheriff to take the money or thing and deposit or deliver it in conformity with its directions.  (2)  (A) The court may direct the sheriff to keep safe any property delivered pursuant to the provisions of this section and may allow him or her the necessary expenses attending the property, to be paid by such party as the court shall direct, and taxed in the costs of the action.  (B) The court may confide to the sheriff money deposited or paid into court, which shall be kept by him or her under the same requirements and responsibilities of himself or herself and his or her sureties as are provided by this code in respect to money deposited in lieu of bail.      (b) A court sitting in a county in which, or in any county adjoining which, there is a bank or a branch of a bank, created by the laws of this state or the United States, transacting regular banking business, may order money paid into court to be deposited in that bank or branch to the credit of the court, in the action or proceeding in which the money was paid. Money so deposited shall be paid only upon the check of the clerk of the court annexed to its certified order for the payment and in favor of the person to whom the order directs the payment to be made.  (c) Money deposited or paid into the court in any action shall not be loaned out by the court unless it is with the consent of all the parties having an interest in or making claim to the money.
AR Code § 16-63-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 63 - Pleadings And Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 2 - Pleadings|§ 16-63-206. Setoffs

 (a) A setoff may be pleaded in any action for the recovery of money and may be a cause of action arising either upon contract or tort.  (b) In suits by executors or administrators, debts existing against their testators or intestates and owing to the defendant at the time of the death of the testator or intestate may be set off by the defendant in the same manner as if the action had been brought by and in the name of the deceased.  (c) Judgments, bills, bonds, notes, or other writings assigned to the defendant after suit has been commenced against him or her shall not be allowed to be set off against the demands of the plaintiff.  (d) When any plaintiff shall be indebted to a defendant in any bond, bill, note, contract, book account, or other liquidated demand and the defendant fails to set off the debt against the plaintiff's demand, the defendant shall be forever barred from recovering costs in any suit which he or she may thereafter institute upon any such bond, bill, note, contract, book account, or other liquidated demand.  (e) Where it appears that a new party is necessary to a final decision upon the setoff, the court shall permit the new party to be made, if it also appears that, owing to the insolvency or nonresidence of the plaintiff or other cause, the defendant will be in danger of losing his or her claim unless permitted to use it as a setoff.
AR Code § 16-63-218 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 63 - Pleadings And Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 2 - Pleadings|§ 16-63-218. Original papers not removed

 No original pleading, motion, or deposition shall be permitted to be taken from the office of the clerk of the court unless by the order of the court or judge in each specific instance, but all original papers shall remain in the office subject to the inspection of all interested persons and their attorneys.
AR Code § 16-63-219 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 63 - Pleadings And Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 2 - Pleadings|§ 16-63-219. Fee for discovery of medical records

 A party in a civil action who seeks discovery of medical records from a physician or a hospital may be required by the court to pay the person from whom discovery is sought a reasonable fee for processing the records. The fee for processing the records shall not be limited to the expense of copying the records.
AR Code § 16-63-220 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 63 - Pleadings And Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 2 - Pleadings|§ 16-63-220. Reply to action brought by prisoner

 (a)  (1)  (A) Any defendant may waive the right to reply to any action brought by an incarcerated person, defined for purposes of this section as a person who has been convicted of a crime and is incarcerated for that crime or is being held in custody for trial or sentencing, under Section 1979 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, or any other federal law or state law.  (B) Notwithstanding any other law or rule of procedure, such waiver shall not constitute an admission of the allegations contained in the complaint.    (2) No relief shall be granted to the plaintiff unless a reply has been filed.    (b) The court may require any defendant to reply to a complaint brought under this section if it finds that the plaintiff has a reasonable opportunity to prevail on the merits.
AR Code § 16-63-221 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 63 - Pleadings And Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 2 - Pleadings|§ 16-63-221. Complaint — Amount in controversy

 (a) A plaintiff who files a complaint in a circuit or district court praying for an award of damages may, but is not required to, state an amount in controversy for the purposes of establishing subject-matter jurisdiction and determining if the amount sought is within the jurisdictional limits of the court.  (b) A declaration allowed by subsection (a) of this section is binding on the plaintiff with respect to the amount in controversy unless the plaintiff subsequently amends the complaint to pray for damages in an amount that exceeds the jurisdictional limits of the court, at which time the amendment is governed by the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure.
AR Code § 16-63-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 63 - Pleadings And Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 3 - Joinder|§ 16-63-302. Failure to join actions — Costs

 When any plaintiff brings in the same court several suits against the same defendant or defendants for causes of action that may be joined, the plaintiff shall recover only the costs of one (1) action. The costs of the other actions shall be adjudged against him or her unless sufficient reason appears to the court for bringing several actions.
AR Code § 16-63-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 63 - Pleadings And Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 4 - Continuance or Dismissal|§ 16-63-402. Continuance for absence of evidence or witness

 (a) A motion to postpone a trial on account of the absence of evidence shall, if required by the opposite party, be made only upon affidavit showing the materiality of the evidence expected to be obtained and that due diligence has been used to obtain it. If the motion is for an absent witness, the affidavit must show what facts the affiant believes the witness will prove and not merely show the effect of the facts in evidence, that the affiant believes them to be true, and that the witness is not absent by the consent, connivance, or procurement of the party asking the postponement.  (b) If thereupon the adverse party will admit that on trial the absent witness, if present, would testify to the statement contained in the application for a continuance, then the trial shall not be postponed for that cause. However, the opposite party may controvert the statement so set forth in the motion for continuance by evidence.
AR Code § 16-63-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 63 - Pleadings And Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 4 - Continuance or Dismissal|§ 16-63-403. No continuance until costs paid

 No order of continuance takes effect until the plaintiff or, if the continuance has been granted upon the motion of the defendant, the defendant has made or secured the payment of all costs of the action, due for the term in which the continuance is granted.
AR Code § 16-63-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally|Chapter 63 - Pleadings And Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 4 - Continuance or Dismissal|§ 16-63-404. Dismissal in vacation

 The plaintiff or his or her attorney may dismiss any suit, except actions of replevin, pending in any of the courts of this state, in vacation, in the office of the clerk on the payment of all costs that may have accrued therein.