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Ark. Code Ann. § 18-60-101

Right of cotenants to accounting

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Dent v. Wright (1995)

Most recently applied in Dent v. Wright (October 1995)

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(1) When any joint tenant, tenant in common, or coparcener in any real estate, or any interest therein, shall take, use, or have the profits and benefits thereof in greater proportion than his or her interest therein, that person, or his or her executor or administrator, shall account therefor to his or her cotenant or cotenants, jointly or severally.

(2) Joint tenants, tenants in common, and coparceners in any real or personal estate may maintain civil actions against their cotenants who receive as bailiffs more than their due proportion of the benefits of the estate.

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.