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Ark. Code Ann. § 12-18-807

Administrative judgments and adjudications

Known as the Child Maltreatment Act

The act spans §§ 12–12 (121 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Ogborn v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (2017)

Most recently applied in Ogborn v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (November 2017)

Acts 2009, No. 749, § 1; 2013, No. 1006, § 24.

(1) If a court of competent jurisdiction adjudicates a question that is an issue to be determined by the Office of Appeals and Hearings of the Department of Human Services, the prevailing party to the judicial adjudication who is also a party to the administrative adjudication shall file a certified copy of the judicial adjudication with the office.

(2) The office shall determine whether and to what extent the judicial adjudication has preclusive effect on the administrative adjudication by applying the principles of claim preclusion and issue preclusion.

(3) The office shall not readjudicate any precluded issues.

(4) If the judicial adjudication is modified or reversed, the office shall determine whether and to what extent any issue in the administrative adjudication remains precluded and shall schedule a hearing with respect to any matter that is no longer precluded.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.