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AR Code § 28-9-216 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 9 - Intestate Succession|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Inheritance Code of 1969|§ 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 to an heir shall be treated as an advancement against the heir's share of the estate if declared in writing by the decedent or acknowledged in writing by the heir to be an advancement.  (b) For this purpose, the property advanced shall be valued as of the time the heir came into possession or enjoyment of the property or as of the time of death of the decedent, whichever first occurs.  (c) If the recipient of the property fails to survive the decedent, the property shall not be taken into account in computing the share of the recipient's descendants.
AR Code § 28-9-217 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 9 - Intestate Succession|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Inheritance Code of 1969|§ 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 to survive the decedent, the debt shall not be taken into account in computing the share of the debtor's descendants.
AR Code § 28-9-218 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 9 - Intestate Succession|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Inheritance Code of 1969|§ 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 inheritances of land the intestate's property would descend only to such of his or her heirs as were of the blood of the next preceding ancestor in the line of successive descents who acquired title by purchase, that is to say, by any method other than descent.
AR Code § 28-9-219 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 9 - Intestate Succession|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Inheritance Code of 1969|§ 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 intestate is abolished.  (b) The devolution of real estate and personal property which the intestate acquired by gift, devise, or descent from some ancestor shall be controlled by the same rules which apply to the devolution of real estate and personal property acquired by the intestate in any other manner.
AR Code § 28-9-220 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 9 - Intestate Succession|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Inheritance Code of 1969|§ 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 next of kin of the conveyor, or to a person or persons who on the death of the conveyor are some or all of his or her heirs or next of kin, the conveyees acquire the property by purchase and not by descent.  (b) When any property is limited in an otherwise effective conveyance inter vivos, in form or in effect, to the heirs or next of kin of the conveyor, which conveyance creates one (1) or more prior interests in favor of a person or persons in existence, the conveyance operates in favor of such heirs or next of kin by purchase and not by descent.
AR Code § 28-9-221 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 9 - Intestate Succession|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Inheritance Code of 1969|§ 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 surviving spouse, in a writing that is either notarized or witnessed by a licensed physician or a person acting under the supervision of a licensed physician, to use the decedent's gametes after the decedent's death shall be deemed the child of the decedent with the right to inherit from the decedent if the child is conceived within twelve (12) months following the death of the decedent and born within nineteen (19) months following the death of the decedent.  (b) This section is retroactive to December 1, 2009, solely for the purpose of establishing a posthumous child's entitlement to Social Security benefits under the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 402(d), deriving from the decedent.
AR Code § 28-10-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 10 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (2005)|§ 28-10-201. Definitions

 In this subchapter:   (1) “Co-owners with right of survivorship” includes joint tenants, tenants by the entireties, and other co-owners of property or accounts held under circumstances that entitle one (1) or more to the whole of the property or account on the death of the other or others.  (2) “Governing instrument” means a deed, will, trust, insurance or annuity policy, account with POD designation, pension, profit-sharing, retirement, or similar benefit plan, instrument creating or exercising a power of appointment or a power of attorney, or a dispositive, appointive, or nominative instrument of any similar type.  (3) “Payor” means a trustee, insurer, business entity, employer, government, governmental agency, subdivision, or instrumentality, or any other person authorized or obligated by law or a governing instrument to make payments.
AR Code § 28-10-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 10 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (2005)|§ 28-10-202. Requirement of survival by 120 hours under probate code

 Except as provided in § 28-10-206, if the title to property, the devolution of property, the right to elect an interest in property, or the right to exempt property, homestead or family allowance depends upon an individual's survivorship of the death of another individual, an individual who is not established by clear and convincing evidence to have survived the other individual by 120 hours is deemed to have predeceased the other individual. This section does not apply if its application would result in a taking of intestate estate by the state.
AR Code § 28-10-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 10 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (2005)|§ 28-10-203. Requirement of survival by 120 hours under governing instruments

 Except as provided in § 28-10-206, for purposes of a provision of a governing instrument that relates to an individual surviving an event, including the death of another individual, an individual who is not established by clear and convincing evidence to have survived the event by 120 hours is deemed to have predeceased the event.
AR Code § 28-10-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 10 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (2005)|§ 28-10-204. Co-owners with right of survivorship — Requirement of survival by 120 hours

 Except as provided in § 28-10-206, if: (i) it is not established by clear and convincing evidence that one of two co-owners with right of survivorship survived the other co-owner by 120 hours, one-half of the property passes as if one had survived by 120 hours and one-half as if the other had survived by 120 hours and (ii) there are more than two co-owners and it is not established by clear and convincing evidence that at least one of them survived the others by 120 hours, the property passes in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of co-owners.
AR Code § 28-10-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 10 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (2005)|§ 28-10-205. Evidence of death or status

 In addition to the rules of evidence in courts of general jurisdiction, the following rules relating to a determination of death and status apply:   (1) Death occurs when an individual has sustained either: (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.  (2) A certified or authenticated copy of a death certificate purporting to be issued by an official or agency of the place where the death purportedly occurred is prima facie evidence of the fact, place, date, and time of death and the identity of the decedent.  (3) A certified or authenticated copy of any record or report of a governmental agency, domestic or foreign, that an individual is missing, detained, dead, or alive is prima facie evidence of the status and of the dates, circumstances, and places disclosed by the record or report.  (4) In the absence of prima facie evidence of death under paragraph (2) or (3), the fact of death may be established by clear and convincing evidence, including circumstantial evidence.  (5) An individual whose death is not established under the preceding paragraphs who is absent for a continuous period of five years, during which he or she has not been heard from, and whose absence is not satisfactorily explained after diligent search or inquiry, is presumed to be dead. His or her death is presumed to have occurred at the end of the period unless there is sufficient evidence for determining that death occurred earlier.  (6) In the absence of evidence disputing the time of death stipulated on a document described in paragraph (2) or (3), a document described in paragraph (2) or (3) that stipulates a time of death 120 hours or more after the time of death of another individual, however the time of death of the other individual is determined, establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the individual survived the other individual by 120 hours.
AR Code § 28-10-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 10 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (2005)|§ 28-10-206. Exceptions

 This subchapter does not apply if:   (1) the governing instrument contains language dealing explicitly with simultaneous deaths or deaths in a common disaster and that language is operable under the facts of the case;  (2) the governing instrument expressly indicates that an individual is not required to survive an event, including the death of another individual, by any specified period or expressly requires the individual to survive the event for a specified period;  (3) the imposition of 120-hour requirement of survival would cause a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment to be invalid under any rule against perpetuities; or  (4) the application of a 120-hour requirement of survival to multiple governing instruments would result in an unintended failure or duplication of a disposition.
AR Code § 28-10-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 10 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (2005)|§ 28-10-208. Uniformity of application and construction

 This subchapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this subchapter among states enacting it.
AR Code § 28-10-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 10 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (2005)|§ 28-10-209. Short title

 This subchapter may be cited as the “Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (2005)”.
AR Code § 28-10-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 10 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (2005)|§ 28-10-211. Severability clause

 If any provision of this subchapter or its application to any persons or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does 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 severable.
AR Code § 28-10-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 10 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act (2005)|§ 28-10-212. Effective date

 (a) This subchapter takes effect January 1, 2006.  (b) On the effective date of this subchapter:  (1) an act done before the effective date in any proceeding and any accrued right is not impaired by this subchapter. If a right is acquired, extinguished, or barred upon the expiration of a prescribed period of time that has commenced to run by the provisions of any statute before the effective date, the provisions remain in force with respect to that right; and  (2) any rule of construction or presumption provided in this subchapter applies to instruments executed and multiple-party accounts opened before the effective date unless there is a clear indication of a contrary intent.
AR Code § 28-11-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 28-11-101. Definition

 As used in this chapter, “endowed” means invested and shall apply both to dower and curtesy.
AR Code § 28-11-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 28-11-102. Descent of land upon death of spouse having dower or curtesy interest

 At the death of any surviving spouse who has dower or curtesy for life in land, the property shall descend in accordance with the will of the first deceased spouse or, if the first spouse died intestate, then to descend in accordance with the law for the distribution of intestates' estates.
AR Code § 28-11-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 2 - Entitlement Generally|§ 28-11-201. Actions of spouse not to bar right to dower or curtesy

 (a) No act, deed, or conveyance executed or performed by one (1) spouse without the assent of the other spouse, evinced by acknowledgment in the manner required by law, shall pass the estate of dower or curtesy.  (b) No judgment, default, covin, or crime of one (1) spouse shall prejudice the right of the other spouse to curtesy or dower, or preclude either spouse from the recovery thereof, if otherwise entitled thereto.
AR Code § 28-11-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 2 - Entitlement Generally|§ 28-11-202. Surviving spouse of alien entitled to dower or curtesy

 The surviving spouse of an alien shall be entitled to dower in the estate of the deceased spouse in the same manner as if the alien had been a native-born citizen of this state.
AR Code § 28-11-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 2 - Entitlement Generally|§ 28-11-203. Right of dower and curtesy barred

 (a) The inchoate right of dower or curtesy of any spouse in real property in the State of Arkansas is barred in all cases when or where the other spouse has been barred of title or of any interest in the property for seven (7) years or more and also in real property or interest conveyed by the husband or wife but not signed by the other spouse when the conveyance is made or has been made for a period of seven (7) years or more.  (b)  (1) This section shall affect the inchoate right of dower and curtesy of a spouse in real property in this state only where or when the husband or wife has been barred of title for seven (7) years or more, or when a conveyance by the husband or wife, without the signature of the other spouse, has been made for a period of seven (7) years or more.  (2) However, this section shall not apply unless the instrument of conveyance by the husband or wife has been of record for at least seven (7) years.
AR Code § 28-11-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 2 - Entitlement Generally|§ 28-11-204. Murder of spouse — Effect

 (a) Whenever a spouse shall kill or slay his or her spouse and the killing or slaying would under the law constitute murder, either in the first or second degree, and that spouse shall be convicted of murder for the killing or slaying, in either the first or second degree, the one so convicted shall not be endowed in the real or personal estate of the decedent spouse so killed or slain.  (b) In the event that a decedent spouse under this section dies without a will, the descendents of the one so convicted shall not benefit from the estate of the decedent spouse unless the descendents of the spouse that committed the murder are also descendants of the decedent spouse.
AR Code § 28-11-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 3 - Extent of Interest|§ 28-11-301. Land generally

 (a) If a person dies leaving a surviving spouse and a child or children, the surviving spouse shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands for life whereof his or her spouse was seized, of an estate of inheritance, at any time during the marriage, unless the endowment shall have been relinquished in legal form.  (b) A person shall have a dower or curtesy right in lands sold in the lifetime of his or her spouse without consent of the spouse in legal form against all creditors of the estate.
AR Code § 28-11-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 3 - Extent of Interest|§ 28-11-302. Lands exchanged — Election

 If a person seized of an estate of inheritance in lands exchanges it for other lands, the surviving spouse shall not have curtesy or dower of both, but shall make an election to curtesy or dower in the lands given or of those taken in exchange. If the election is not evinced by the commencement of proceedings to recover curtesy or dower of the lands given in exchange within one (1) year after the death of the deceased spouse, the surviving spouse shall be deemed to have elected to take the curtesy or dower of the lands received in exchange.
AR Code § 28-11-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 3 - Extent of Interest|§ 28-11-303. Mortgaged land

 (a) When a person seized of an estate of inheritance in land shall have executed a mortgage of the estate before marriage, the surviving spouse, nevertheless, shall be entitled to dower or curtesy out of the lands mortgaged as against every person except the mortgagee and those claiming under him or her.  (b)  (1) When a person shall purchase lands during coverture and shall mortgage his or her estate in the lands to secure the payment of the purchase money, the surviving spouse shall not be entitled to dower or curtesy out of the lands as against the mortgagee or those claiming under him or her, although he or she shall not have united in the mortgage. However, he or she shall be entitled to dower or curtesy as against all other persons.  (2) When, in such a case, the mortgagee or those claiming under him or her, shall, after the death of the mortgagor, cause the land mortgaged to be sold, either under a power contained in the mortgage or by virtue of the decree of a circuit court and any surplus shall remain after the payment of the moneys due on the mortgage and the costs and charges of sale, then the surviving spouse shall be entitled to the interest or income of one-third (1/3) part of the surplus for life, as his or her curtesy or dower.    (c) A surviving spouse shall not be endowed of lands conveyed to the deceased spouse by way of mortgage unless the deceased spouse has acquired an absolute estate therein during the marriage.
AR Code § 28-11-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 3 - Extent of Interest|§ 28-11-304. Sale of timber, oil, gas, or mineral leases

 (a) If a person dies leaving a surviving spouse and a child or children, the surviving spouse shall be entitled, absolutely and in his or her own right, to one-third (1/3) of all money received from the sale of timber, oil and gas or other mineral leases, oil and gas or other mineral royalty or mineral sales, and to one-third (1/3) of the money derived from any and all royalty run to the credit of the royalty owners from any oil or gas well or to royalty accruing from the production of other mines or minerals in lands in which he or she has a dower, curtesy, or homestead interest, unless the surviving spouse shall have relinquished same in legal form.  (b)  (1) All persons, firms, partnerships, or corporations now engaged in the production of oil and gas or other minerals shall immediately withhold payments to the royalty interests until the rights of the surviving spouse are determined, as defined by this section, and shall thereafter pay the surviving spouse separately his or her one-third (1/3) part of all royalty accruing to the royalty interest unless he or she shall have relinquished the royalty interest in legal form.  (2) In the sale of timber, the purchaser shall pay one-third (1/3) of the purchase price directly to the surviving spouse or his or her agent or attorney at the time of the execution or delivery of the deed.
AR Code § 28-11-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 3 - Extent of Interest|§ 28-11-305. Personalty

 If a person dies leaving a surviving spouse and a child or children, the surviving spouse shall be entitled, as part of dower or curtesy in his or her own right, to one-third (1/3) part of the personal estate whereof the deceased spouse died seized or possessed.
AR Code § 28-11-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 2 - Descent And Distribution|Chapter 11 - Dower And Curtesy|Subchapter 3 - Extent of Interest|§ 28-11-306. Bonds, notes, accounts, and evidences of debt

 If any person shall die leaving a surviving spouse, the surviving spouse shall be allowed to take the same dower or curtesy in the bonds, bills, notes, books, accounts, and evidences of debt as the surviving spouse would be entitled to take out of the personal property or cash on hand of the deceased spouse.