...Certain other provisions of the Civil Code are important. Section 159 declares that the husband and wife "may agree, in writing, to an immediate separation...them and of their children during such separation". Section 175 provides that he is not liable for her support if she abandons him without cause, until...

...legal relations : Separation agreement : consideration ; Introduction In evidence in divorce action. 1. A husband and wife cannot by any contract with each...except as to property, and except that they may agree to an Immediate separation and may make provision for the support of either of them and of their children...

...which either might if unmarried; . . . ," and also upon section 159 of the Civil Code, which reads, "A husband and wife cannot, by any contract with each...alter their legal relations, except as to property, . . . , " it is argued by the appellant that under the findings of the trial court set forth, the agreement...

...of the Code. One of these limitations is contained in § 8000, General Code, which reads as follows: 'A husband and wife cannot by any contract with each other alter their legal relations, except that they may agree to an immediate separation,' and make provisions for the support of either of them...