Talk:Court of Chancery

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[edit] Abolition of Arkansas chancery courts

Arkansas abolished its separate chancery courts on July 1, 2001, when Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 80 [1], which reorganized the state judicial system, took effect. The former Chancery Courts were merged into the Circuit Courts, which heard criminal cases and actions at law pre-Amendment 80. Though some divisions of the post-Amendment 80 Circuit Courts mirror the old Chancery Courts' jurisdictions (mainly the domestic relations division, which ended up with most of the Chancery Courts' caseload), all ordinary civil actions are now heard in the civil division of Circuit Court whether they request legal or equitable relief, as in nearly all the other states. --RBBrittain 04:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)