{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-9-12-306","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 9-12-306","heading":"Corroboration","body":"(a) In uncontested divorce suits, corroboration of the plaintiff's grounds for divorce shall not be necessary or required. (b) In contested suits, corroboration of the injured party's grounds may be expressly waived in writing by the other spouse. (c) (1) This section does not apply to proof as to residence, which must be corroborated, and does not apply to proof of separation and continuity of separation without cohabitation, which must be corroborated. (2) In uncontested cases, proof as to residence and proof of separation and continuity of separation without cohabitation may be corroborated by either oral testimony or verified affidavit of persons other than the parties. Acts 1969, No. 398, § 1; 1981, No. 267, § 1; 1985, No. 474, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 34-1207.1\n\n(a) In uncontested divorce suits, corroboration of the plaintiff's grounds for divorce shall not be necessary or required.\n\n(b) In contested suits, corroboration of the injured party's grounds may be expressly waived in writing by the other spouse.\n\n(c) (1) This section does not apply to proof as to residence, which must be corroborated, and does not apply to proof of separation and continuity of separation without cohabitation, which must be corroborated. (2) In uncontested cases, proof as to residence and proof of separation and continuity of separation without cohabitation may be corroborated by either oral testimony or verified affidavit of persons other than the parties.\n\n(1) This section does not apply to proof as to residence, which must be corroborated, and does not apply to proof of separation and continuity of separation without cohabitation, which must be corroborated.\n\n(2) In uncontested cases, proof as to residence and proof of separation and continuity of separation without cohabitation may be corroborated by either oral testimony or verified affidavit of persons other than the parties.","path":["AR Code","Title 9","Chapter 12","Subchapter 3"],"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":"bee7fae9227763f4bc27f9ab41a7f6695d3b00837cbd591cf59090d019f66223","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-9-12-305","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-9-12-307","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."}