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Ark. Code Ann. § 18-12-106

Joint tenants with right of survivorship

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Brissett v. Sykes (1993)

Most recently applied in Farrow v. Fuller (March 2017)

Acts 1991, No. 56, § 1.

(1) Interests in real property may be conveyed to two (2) or more persons, regardless of their relationship to each other, as joint tenants with right of survivorship.

(2) Any person who owns an interest in real property may convey that interest or any portion thereof to himself or herself and one (1) or more other persons, regardless of their relationship to each other, as joint tenants with right of survivorship.

(3) Furthermore, all conveyances of real property made prior to July 15, 1991, and which clearly intended that the interests were conveyed as joint tenancy with right of survivorship even though the grantees were not husband and wife shall be deemed to have created joint tenancies with right of survivorship.

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.