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2010 Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts
Subtitle 5 - Civil Procedure Generally
Chapter 61 - Parties
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 16-61-102 - Married persons.
16-61-102. Married persons.(a) If a husband and wife are sued together, the wife may defend:
(1) For her own right; and
(2) If the husband neglects to defend, for his right also.
(b) Where a husband, being a father, has deserted his family, the wife, being a mother, may prosecute or defend in his name any action which he might have prosecuted or defended and shall have the same powers and rights therein as he might have had.
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