Probate proceedings
Known as the Probate Code
The act spans §§ 28–28 (19 sections).
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case Dougan v. Gray (1994)
Most recently applied in Joseph Fenwick v. Marcia Clark, as of the Estate of Dorothy J. Fenwick (August 2022)
Acts 1949, No. 140, §§ 4, 5; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 62-2004, 62-2005; Acts 2003, No. 1185, § 268.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The circuit court shall have jurisdiction over:
(1) The administration, settlement, and distribution of estates of decedents;
(2) The probate of wills;
(3) The persons and estates of minors;
(4) Persons of unsound mind and their estates;
(5) The determination of heirship or of adoption;
(6) The restoration of lost wills and the construction of wills when incident to the administration of an estate; and
(7) All such other matters as are provided by law.
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.