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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hodge finds the superior court erred in its decision ordering the former husband to pay his former wife support including $350,000 in attorney fees, $7,500 in monthly cash alimony and $5,000 credit card access per month pending the remainder of their divorce litigation. Seeing as how the divorce proceeding is in such a late stage, as the petition for divorce was filed in 2016, a divorce decree was entered in February 2022 and the former wife petitioned for alimony and fees pending litigation for the first time in March 2022, the superior court did not have authority to award the alimony and fees, in part because its decree did not explicitly retain jurisdiction permitting a future claim for spousal support. The superior court's order is reversed, and the case is remanded for it to consider only the division of marital assets. Reversed.