Court Opinion

ID: 9621776
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:06:33.889591+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:44:04.291159
License: Public Domain

DAVID M. GLOVER, Judge, concurring. I agree that Mr. Frost has no standing to make an argument regarding the marital home. This is based upon his attempt to divest himself of it by deeding the property to the parties’ son. His actions were for naught. Arkansas Code Annotated section 18-12-403 (Repl.2003) provides: No conveyance, mortgage, or other instrument affecting the homestead of any married person shall be of any validity, except for taxes, laborers’ and mechanics’ liens, and purchase money, unless his or her spouse joins in the execution of the instrument, or conveys by separate document, and acknowledges it. (Emphasis added.) Our supreme court, in Blackford v. Dickey, 302 Ark. 261, 264, 789 S.W.2d 445, 446 (1990), has construed this statute: The language of this statute could not be clearer. We have long held that deeds made without regard to this statute are void and leave the title as if they had not been made. Pipkin v. Williams, 57 Ark. 242, 21 S.W. 438 (1893). Without Mrs. Frost joining in the deed, it is not a conveyance and is void.