Arkansas Code Annotated
Ark. Code Ann. § 16-13-318 (2026)
[Repealed.]
✓ current as of May 2026
Publisher's Notes. This section, concerning private hearings by chancery courts, was repealed by Acts 2003, No. 1185, § 81. This section was derived from Acts 1953, No. 277, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 22-404.1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1991–2014 · leading case: Arkansas Best Corp. v. Gen. Elec. Capital Corp., 878 S.W.2d 708 (Ark. 1994).
Arkansas Best Corp. v. Gen. Elec. Capital Corp., 878 S.W.2d 708 (Ark. 1994). “1993) (juvenile proceedings); Ark.Code Ann. § 16-13-318 (1987) (domestic relation cases).”
Stephens v. Stephens, 810 S.W.2d 946 (Ark. 1991). “Citing Rule 26(c) of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure, which gives the trial court broad authority to enter protective orders, and Ark. Code Ann. § 16-13-318 (1987), empowering chancery courts in domestic cases either upon application of all litigants or upon their own…”
Arkansas Dep't of Human Servs. v. Hardy, 871 S.W.2d 352 (Ark. 1994). “1993) (for juvenile proceedings); and § 16-13-318 (1987) (involving domestic relations cases).”
In re Amends. to the Ark. R. Civ. P., 2014 Ark. 119 (Ark. 2014). “The rule cited Ark. Code Ann. § 16-13-318 as an example of an exception to the public-trials- and-hearings requirement of the rule.”
Ivy v. State, 917 S.W.2d 179 (Ark. Ct. App. 1996). “We think that, given the confidential nature of the sealed records relating to the victim and the fact that this case arose out of a domestic relations matter, the circumstances of the case at bar are sufficiently within the concerns addressed by § 16-13-318 to support the…”
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