{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-61-102","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 16-61-102","heading":"Married persons","body":"(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. Civil Code, §§ 43, 44; C. \u0026 M. Dig., §§ 1108, 1109; Pope's Dig., §§ 1324, 1325; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 27-821, 27-822.\n\n(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.\n\n(1) For her own right; and\n\n(2) If the husband neglects to defend, for his right also.\n\n(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.\n\nCivil Code, §§ 43, 44; C. \u0026 M. Dig., §§ 1108, 1109; Pope's Dig., §§ 1324, 1325; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 27-821, 27-822.","path":["AR Code","Title 16","Chapter 61","Subchapter 1"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"3fc7be4e87b385b52340e9c6f501dbacf4295a021dcd092b68a14f7a1c4d220e","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-61-101","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-61-103","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}