When the homestead, after being reduced to the lowest practical area, exceeds the exemption amount allowed under this article and the husband or wife has transferred the property by deed, mortgage, or other conveyance without the spouse’s voluntary signature and legal acknowledgment, the transferor, the spouse, or their minor child or children may file a complaint to have the land sold and the homestead interest separated from that of the transferee.

(Code 1876, §2832; Code 1886, §2538; Code 1896, §2064; Code 1907, §4191; Code 1923, §7913; Code 1940, T. 7, §656; Acts 1980, No. 80-569, p. 879, §6; Act 2026-203, §2.)