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2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 40: Domestic Affairs
Article 2: Rights of Married Persons Generally, 40-2-1 through 40-2-9
Section 40-2-8: Extent of mutual alteration of legal relations.
NM Stat § 40-2-8 (1996 through 1st Sess 50th Legis) What's This?
40-2-8. [Extent of mutual alteration of legal relations.]
A husband and wife cannot by any contract with each other alter their legal relations, except of their property, and except that they may agree in writing, to an immediate separation, and may make provisions for the support of either of them and of their children during their separation.
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