# Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-505: Control of separate real and personal property

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## Section

- **Citation:** Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-505
- **Heading:** Control of separate real and personal property
- **Jurisdiction:** Arkansas
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** AR Code / Title 9 / Chapter 11 / Subchapter 5 / Section 9-11-505

## Text

(a) The real and personal property that any married person now owns, or has had conveyed to him or her by any person in good faith and without prejudice to existing creditors, that is acquired as sole and separate property, that comes to him or her by gift, bequest, descent, grant, or conveyance from any person, that he or she has acquired by trade, business, labor, or services carried on or performed on his or her sole or separate account, that a married person in this state holds or owns at the time of the marriage, and the rents, issues, and proceeds of all such property shall, notwithstanding the marriage, be and remain his or her sole and separate property. (b) The separate property may be used, collected, and invested by him or her, in his or her own name, and shall not be subject to the interference or control of his or her spouse nor shall it be liable for the spouse's debts, except as may have been contracted for the support of the spouse, or support of the children of the marriage by the spouse or his or her agent. Acts 1873, No. 126, § 2, p. 382; C. & M. Dig., § 5580; Pope's Dig., § 7230; Acts 1981, No. 873, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 55-404

(a) The real and personal property that any married person now owns, or has had conveyed to him or her by any person in good faith and without prejudice to existing creditors, that is acquired as sole and separate property, that comes to him or her by gift, bequest, descent, grant, or conveyance from any person, that he or she has acquired by trade, business, labor, or services carried on or performed on his or her sole or separate account, that a married person in this state holds or owns at the time of the marriage, and the rents, issues, and proceeds of all such property shall, notwithstanding the marriage, be and remain his or her sole and separate property.

(b) The separate property may be used, collected, and invested by him or her, in his or her own name, and shall not be subject to the interference or control of his or her spouse nor shall it be liable for the spouse's debts, except as may have been contracted for the support of the spouse, or support of the children of the marriage by the spouse or his or her agent.

Acts 1873, No. 126, § 2, p. 382; C. & M. Dig., § 5580; Pope's Dig., § 7230; Acts 1981, No. 873, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 55-404

## Nearby sections

- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-501 Construction of this section and sections 9-11-509 - 9-11-514](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-501.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-502 [Repealed]](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-502.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-503 Rights generally](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-503.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-504 [Repealed]](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-504.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-505 Control of separate real and personal property](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-505.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-506 Spouses not liable for each other's antenuptial debts](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-506.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-507 Separate property of one spouse not liable for other spouse's debts](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-507.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-508 Contracts concerning separate property of one spouse not binding on other spouse](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-508.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-509 Schedule of separate personal property - Filing - Effect](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-509.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-510 Form of schedule](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-510.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-511 Filing of schedule by person selling or giving property - Effect of recording conveyance or will](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-511.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-512 Effect of failure to file schedule](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-512.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-513 Control of one spouse's separate property by other spouse - Presumption of agency or trusteeship](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-513.md)
- [Ark. Code Ann. § 9-11-514 Settlements in equity](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_AR_T9_C11_S5_S9-11-514.md)

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