Arkansas Code Title 28. Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships § 28-41-103. Order vesting estate

(a) Either with or without administration, if the court shall determine upon petition of an interested person that the personal property owned by a decedent at the time of his or her death does not exceed that to which the surviving spouse, if any, or minor children, if any, are by law entitled free of debt, as dower or curtesy and statutory allowances, then the court may enter an order vesting the entire estate in the surviving spouse and minor children, or the surviving spouse or minor children.

(b) The statutory allowances payable to or for the benefit of the minor children of the decedent may be paid to the surviving parent without the interposition of a guardian if the surviving parent has custody of the minor children.

(c) The petition may be granted without notice or upon such notice as the court may direct.