Arkansas Code Title 28. Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships § 28-11-307. Surviving spouse with no children

(a)(1) If a person dies leaving a surviving spouse and no children, the surviving spouse shall be endowed in fee simple of one-half ( 1/2 ) of the real estate of which the deceased person died seized when the estate is a new acquisition and not an ancestral estate and of one-half ( 1/2 ) of the personal estate, absolutely, and in his or her own right, as against collateral heirs.

(2) However, as against creditors, the surviving spouse shall be invested with one-third ( 1/3 ) of the real estate in fee simple if a new acquisition, and not ancestral, and of one-third ( 1/3 ) of the personal property absolutely.