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Ark. Code Ann. § 9-15-103

Definitions

Known as the Domestic Abuse Act

The act spans §§ 9–9 (30 sections).

Applied in 27 court decisions — leading case 2010 Ark. App. 345 - Oates v. Oates (2010)

Most recently applied in 2026 Ark. App. 173 - Golden Kinsey v. Anitra Ford (March 2026)

Acts 1991, No. 266, § 2; 1999, No. 1551, § 1; 2001, No. 1678, § 1; 2005, No. 1676, § 1; 2005, No. 1875, § 1; 2009, No. 698, § 1; 2015, No. 701, §§ 1, 2; 2017, No. 577, § 1.

How often courts cite this section

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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.

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Commercial mobile radio service” means commercial mobile service as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 332;

(2) “County where the petitioner resides” means the county in which the petitioner physically resides at the time the petition is filed and may include a county where the petitioner is located for a short-term stay in a domestic violence shelter;

(3) “Dating relationship” means a romantic or intimate social relationship between two (2) individuals that shall be determined by examining the following factors: The length of the relationship;

(4) The type of the relationship; and

(5) The frequency of interaction between the two (2) individuals involved in the relationship.

(6) “Dating relationship” does not include a casual relationship or ordinary fraternization between two (2) individuals in a business or social context;

(7) “Domestic abuse” means: Physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or the infliction of fear of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, or assault between family or household members; or

(8) Any sexual conduct between family or household members, whether minors or adults, that constitutes a crime under the laws of this state;

(9) “Family or household members” means spouses, former spouses, parents and children, persons related by blood within the fourth degree of consanguinity, in-laws, any children residing in the household, persons who presently or in the past have resided or cohabited together, persons who have or have had a child in common, and persons who are presently or in the past have been in a dating relationship together;

(10) “In-laws” means persons related by marriage within the second degree of consanguinity; and

(11) “Wireless telephone service provider” means a commercial mobile radio service provider or reseller.

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.