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Divorce in Arkansas

We haven't verified Arkansas's divorce rules from an official source yet. Each rule below links to the official text it comes from.

Court-roster mediators per 100,000
5.7

177 listed · U.S. 8.3[1]

What are the divorce laws in Arkansas?

Not legal advice. These are plain-English summaries of Arkansas’s statutes and court rules as of the date shown on each; they can change and courts apply them case by case. Read the linked source or ask a lawyer licensed in Arkansas.

  1. Waiting period

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  2. Residency requirement

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  3. No-fault divorce

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  4. Property division

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  5. Court mediation for custody

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  6. Court mediation fees

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  7. Filing fee

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  8. Alimony

    Court decides from listed factors

    Arkansas courts have discretion to award alimony, with the recipient’s need and the other spouse’s ability to pay as the main considerations; case law lists secondary factors and says the amount should not be reduced to a mathematical formula. The statute (Ark. Code Ann. § 9-12-312) also allows rehabilitative alimony and lists events that automatically end alimony.

    Alimony in Arkansas, with the statute quoted →

  9. Divorce rate

    3.3 per 1,000 residents (2024)

    Arkansas’s courts granted 3.3 divorces per 1,000 residents in 2024, down from 6.4 in 2000; the U.S. rate was 2.3. In the Census Bureau’s 2024 survey, 9.2 of every 1,000 women 15 and older in Arkansas divorced in the past year (±1.7; U.S. 6.9), a different measure.[2][3]

    Divorce rates by state, with sources → · CDC/NCHS NVSS; Census ACS · checked October 27, 2026

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Mediators per 100,000: MediationList listings from official court and government rosters in Arkansas (177) ÷ population (3,088,354, U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 county population estimates (July 1, 2024)) × 100,000, the same figure as mediator statistics.[1]

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Sources

Arkansas’s statutes and court rules, read on the official site, plus federal statistics; each with the date we checked it.

  1. U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 county and state population estimates (July 1, 2024)census.govchecked ↩
  2. CDC/NCHS, National Vital Statistics System: Divorce rates by State: 1990, 1995, and 2000-2024cdc.govchecked ↩
  3. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 1-year estimates, table https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2024.B12503census.govchecked ↩