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Under Arkansas law, if the parents have never been married and there is no custody order, the mother of the child has legal custody by law.1 For a father to get custody rights, first he would have to establish paternity. Then, he would have to file in court and a judge would have to grant him custody.2
1 Ark. Code § 9-10-113(a)
2 Ark. Code § 9-10-113(b)
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