No county court docket decide or clerk of the circuit court docket in this state shall concern a license for the wedding of any individual … 7) On probation or parole from any court or institution, unless such individual first files with the clerk of the peace to whom such particular person makes software for a marriage license a written consent to such person’s proposed marriage from the chief officer of such courtroom or establishment or from somebody who is appointed by such officer to give such consent, and unless in different respects the applicant might lawfully marry. 2) The state, its businesses, and its political subdivisions may not give impact to any public act, document, or judicial proceeding of any state, territory, possession, or tribe of the United States or of some other jurisdiction, either domestic or overseas, or another place or location respecting either a marriage or relationship not recognized below subsection (1) or a declare arising from such a marriage or relationship.
This state shall not give impact to any public act, file, or judicial proceeding of every other state or jurisdiction respecting a relationship between individuals of the same intercourse that’s handled as a marriage under the legal guidelines of such other state or jurisdiction. All persons who enter into same-gender marriages that are solemnized on this State or are created by conversion from a civil union beneath the legal guidelines of this State consent to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Family Court of this State for all proceedings for divorce and annulment of such marriage, even when 1 or each events now not reside on this State, as set forth in § 1504 of this title. The rights of identical-gender married spouses, with respect to a baby of whom either partner becomes the father or mother during their marriage, shall be the identical as the rights (together with presumptions of parentage, paternity and maternity in Chapter 8 of this title) of different-gender married spouses with respect to a child of whom both partner becomes the parent during their marriage. To the extent that provisions of the laws of this State, whether or not derived from statutes, administrative rules or regulations, court guidelines, governmental insurance policies, common regulation, court docket selections, or any other provisions or sources of law, including in fairness, undertake, discuss with, or rely upon in any manner, provisions of United States federal legislation that might have the effect of treating in another way similar-gender married spouses or their kids as in comparison with totally different-gender married spouses or their children, identical-gender married spouses and their youngsters shall be treated in all respects by the legal guidelines of this State as if United States federal legislation acknowledges a marriage between individuals of the identical gender in the identical method as the laws of this State.
All legal guidelines of this State applicable to marriage or married spouses or the children of married spouses, whether or not derived from statutes, administrative guidelines or rules, court rules, governmental insurance policies, widespread legislation, court docket selections, or any other provisions or sources of legislation, including in equity, shall apply equally to similar-gender and totally different-gender married couples and their children. Parties to a marriage shall be included in any definition or use of phrases resembling “dependent,” “family,” “husband,” “wife,” “widow,” “widower,” “speedy family,” “next of kin,” “partner,” “stepparent,” “tenants by the entirety” and other phrases, whether or not gender specific, that denote a spousal or familial relationship, or a person in a spousal or familial relationship, as these terms are used all through the Code, administrative rules or rules, courtroom rules, governmental insurance policies, common law, court decisions, or another provisions or sources of the legal guidelines of this State, together with in fairness, no matter whether the parties to a marriage are the same gender or totally different genders. This interpretation shall apply to all sources of legislation, including statutes, administrative rules, courtroom selections, widespread regulation, or another supply of law.
Legal status for unmarried persons which is an identical or considerably much like marital standing shall not be legitimate or acknowledged in Arkansas, except that the legislature might recognize a standard regulation marriage from one other state between a man and a girl. 2) Notwithstanding the provisions of part 14-2-112, any marriage contracted inside or outdoors this state that does not satisfy paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this part shall not be recognized as valid in this state. Notwithstanding something to the opposite contained in, and along with any other rights afforded underneath, Chapter 31 of Title 16, if a married particular person is the legal dad or mum of a child on the beginning of the baby, including pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, such particular person shall be entitled to have his or her title entered on the unique certificate of beginning as a father or mother of the baby. A marriage obtained or recognized exterior the State between persons prohibited by subsection (a) of this section shall not constitute a authorized or valid marriage inside the State. Any marriage entered into by individuals of the same sex, where a marriage license is issued by one other state or by a foreign jurisdiction, shall be void in Arkansas and any contractual or other rights granted by virtue of that license, together with its termination, shall be unenforceable within the Arkansas courts.