§ 16-66-206. Exemption — Improvements on public land
It is unlawful to levy upon and sell under any execution or decree any improvement, or right of preemption upon the public lands within this state, any law, usage, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding. However, no other improvement on the public lands, as provided for above, shall be so exempt, except those on which […]
§ 16-66-207. Exemption — Family or public graveyards
(a) The clerk and recorder of deeds of the proper county, when any description of the metes and bounds of a family graveyard or public burial place shall be filed in his or her office, shall make a record of the description in the record of deeds, which shall be sufficient to exempt the land […]
§ 16-66-208. Exemptions — Wages — Penalty
(a) (1) The wages of all laborers and mechanics not exceeding their wages for sixty (60) days shall be exempt from seizure by garnishment, or other legal process if the defendant in any case files with the court from which the process is issued a sworn statement that the sixty (60) days’ wages claimed to […]
§ 16-66-209. Exemption — Proceeds of life, health, accident, and disability insurance — Definition
(a) To the extent permitted by the Arkansas Constitution, all moneys paid or payable to any resident of this state under an insurance policy providing for the payment of life, sick, accident, or disability benefits shall be exempt from liability or seizure under judicial process of any court and shall not be subjected to the […]
§ 16-66-210. Homestead Exemption Act
(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Homestead Exemption Act of 1981”. (b) The homestead of any resident of this state who is married or the head of a family shall not be subject to the lien of any judgment, or decree of any court, or to sale under execution […]
§ 16-66-211. Claiming exemptions — Schedule of property — Stay of execution — Levy on remainder of property — Appeal
(a) (1) Whenever any resident of this state, upon the issue against him or her for the collection of any debt by contract of any execution or other process, of any attachment except specific attachment against his or her property, desires to claim any of the exemptions provided for by law, he or she shall […]
§ 16-66-212. Right of homestead not lost by failure to schedule — Wife may claim
(a) A debtor’s right of homestead shall not be lost or forfeited by his or her omission to select and claim it as exempt before the sale thereof on execution, nor by his or her failure to file a description or schedule of the homestead in the recorder’s or clerk’s office. (b) The debtor may […]
§ 16-66-213. Appraisal of property claimed as exempt
(a) Upon application to the justice or clerk by the plaintiff in whose favor such execution, process, or attachment shall have been issued, the justice or clerk, as the case may be, shall forthwith appoint three (3) disinterested appraisers, to be summoned and sworn by the officer levying the attachment, execution, or process. (b) (1) […]
§ 16-66-214. Effect of filing schedule — Sale stayed without bond — Penalty for sale of scheduled property
(a) When the schedule provided for in § 16-66-211 has been filed as prescribed in that section, the provisions of Chapter VI, of Title XV of the Code of Civil Practice shall not be considered as applying to the case of the execution or other final process stayed. (b) (1) No indemnifying bond shall be […]
§ 16-66-215. Evasion of exemption law in collection of debt — Penalty
Whoever, whether principal, agent, or attorney, under the statutes of this state on the subject of the exemption of property from levy and sale on execution, or in attachment or garnishment, with intent to deprive any resident of this state of his or her rights, sends or causes to be sent out of this state […]