§ 9-11-501. Construction of this section and §§ 9-11-509 — 9-11-514
The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law shall be strictly construed shall have no application to this section and §§ 9-11-509 — 9-11-514.
§ 9-11-503. Rights generally
(a) A married person may bargain, sell, assign, and transfer his or her separate personal property, carry on any trade or business, and perform any labor or services on his or her sole and separate account. (b) The earnings of any married person from the trade, business, labor, or services shall be his or her […]
§ 9-11-505. Control of separate real and personal property
(a) The real and personal property that any married person now owns, or has had conveyed to him or her by any person in good faith and without prejudice to existing creditors, that is acquired as sole and separate property, that comes to him or her by gift, bequest, descent, grant, or conveyance from any […]
§ 9-11-506. Spouses not liable for each other’s antenuptial debts
In all marriages solemnized after February 1, 1899, neither spouse shall be held to be liable for the antenuptial debts of the other, except by virtue of an express written contract.
§ 9-11-507. Separate property of one spouse not liable for other spouse’s debts
The property of any male or female, whether real or personal, and whether acquired before or after marriage in that person’s own right, shall not be sold to pay the debts of a spouse contracted for or damages incurred by the spouse before marriage.
§ 9-11-508. Contracts concerning separate property of one spouse not binding on other spouse
No bargain or contract made by any married person, in respect to his or her sole and separate property or any property that may come to him or her by descent, devise, bequest, purchase, or gift or grant of any person, and no bargain or contract entered into by any married person, in or about […]
§ 9-11-509. Schedule of separate personal property — Filing — Effect
(a) A married person owning any separate personal property may make a schedule of the property and file it in the recorder’s office of the county where he or she then lives. (b) The schedule so filed, or a duly certified copy thereof, under the hand and seal of the recorder, shall be prima facie […]
§ 9-11-510. Form of schedule
That schedule of a married person’s separate property may be in the following form: “STATE OF ARKANSAS COUNTY OF Be it known that I, , (Wife) (Husband) of of the County and State aforesaid, own in my own right the property below described, which I hereby schedule as my separate property, to-wit: (listing of property) […]
§ 9-11-511. Filing of schedule by person selling or giving property — Effect of recording conveyance or will
(a) Any persons who shall bona fide sell or give any property to a married person may schedule and record the sale or gift as the separate property of the married person, with the same and like effect as though the scheduling and recording had been done by the married person. (b) Any conveyance or […]
§ 9-11-512. Effect of failure to file schedule
The separate estate and property of a married person shall not be forfeited nor shall any rights and title thereto be prejudiced by a failure or neglect to file a schedule. However, in any suit, action, or proceeding relating to the property when the property has not been scheduled and recorded the burden of proof […]
§ 9-11-513. Control of one spouse’s separate property by other spouse — Presumption of agency or trusteeship
The fact that a married person permits his or her spouse to have the custody, control, and management of separate property shall not of itself be sufficient evidence that the married person has relinquished title to the property. However, the presumption shall be that the spouse is acting as the agent or trustee of the […]
§ 9-11-514. Settlements in equity
This section and §§ 9-11-501 and 9-11-509 — 9-11-513 shall not be construed to abridge the existing jurisdiction and powers of a court of equity to make a settlement upon a spouse out of his or her separate estate and property and otherwise protect his or her separate property rights. Such jurisdiction is extended to […]
§ 9-11-516. Doctrine of necessaries — Abolished
(a) (1) Absent express authority, neither a husband nor a wife is liable for the other’s debt obligations, including those for necessaries. (2) As used in this section, “necessaries” means all such things required for the sustenance of a person, including food, clothing, medicine, and habitation. (b) The doctrine of necessaries, as it is known […]