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.
Ark. Code Ann. § 18-12-403
Conveyance, etc., of homestead
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 67 Ark. App. 221 - Smith v. Parker (1999)
Most recently applied in Fitton v. Bank of Little Rock (June 2010)
Acts 1887, No. 64, § 1, p. 90; C. & M
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