§ 18-60-401 - Petition. - Arkansas Statutes

18-60-401. Petition.

(a) Under this act, any persons having any interest in, and desiring a division of, land held in joint tenancy, in common, as assigned or unassigned dower, as assigned or unassigned curtesy, or in coparceny, absolutely or subject to the life estate of another, or otherwise, or under an estate by the entirety when the owners shall have been divorced, except when the property involved shall be a homestead and occupied by either of the divorced persons, shall file in the circuit court a written petition.

(b) (1) This petition shall contain a description of the property, the names of those having an interest in it, and the amount of the interest shall be briefly stated in ordinary language, with a prayer for the division and for a sale thereof if it shall appear that partition cannot be made without great prejudice to the owners.

(2) Thereupon all persons interested in the property who have not united in the petition shall be summoned to appear.