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2016 Arkansas Code
Title 18 - Property
Subtitle 1 - General Provisions
Chapter 4 - Miscellaneous Ownership Rights
Subchapter 2 - -- Arkansas Slayer Law
§ 18-4-204. Slayer barred from testate or intestate succession and other rights

AR Code ยง 18-4-204 (2016) What's This?

(a) A slayer is deemed to have died immediately before the death of the decedent.

(b) A slayer shall not acquire any property or property right or receive any benefit from the estate of the decedent by testate or intestate succession, by common law, or by statutory right, including as the surviving spouse of the decedent.

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