A husband and wife cannot, by any contract with each other, alter their legal relations, except as to property, and except that they may agree in writing to an immediate separation, and may make provision for the support of either of them and of their children during such separation.
R.L.1910, § 3354. Renumbered from Title 32, § 6 by Laws 1989, c. 333, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1989.