Marriage shall be only between a man and a woman. A marriage between persons of the same sex is void.
Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-109
Validity of same-sex marriages
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Windsor v. United States (2012)
Most recently applied in Jack Pidgeon and Larry Hicks v. Mayor Sylvester Turner and City of Houston (June 2017)
Acts 1997, No. 144, § 1.
How often courts cite this section
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.
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.