Can a planet still function with a damaged moon?

I'm thinking of having a world that has a moon that's been partially split (so not fully halved) with the debris slowly separating from it. At night you'd see the split moon mainly and lots of various-sized mirror reflectors around that. How would a moon like this effect the planet, tides, etc?

Assuming this is one moon for the one world that will take a very long time to slowly separate into at least two halves, with a lot of debris surrounding it, maybe even a ring around the halves, what planetary changes would be involved at the least and greatest states of this disintegration of their moon?

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