Statutes > New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 40 - Domestic Affairs. > Article 4 - Dissolution of Marriage, 40-4-1 through 40-4-20. > Section 40-4-3 - Proceeding for division of property, disposition of children or alimony without the dissolution of marriage.

Section 40-4-3 - Proceeding for division of property, disposition of children or alimony without the dissolution of marriage.

40-4-3. Proceeding for division of property, disposition of children or alimony without the dissolution of marriage.

Whenever the husband and wife have permanently separated and no longer live or cohabit together as husband and wife, either may institute proceedings in the district court for a division of property, disposition of children or alimony, without asking for or obtaining in the proceedings, a dissolution of marriage.