the trial court amended the judgment to order the husband to secure life insurance naming the wife as beneficiary and reserved the issue of periodic, alimony but left all other aspects of the July 1, 2015, judgment unchanged. The wife, has appealed the judgment, arguing that the trial court erred by not awarding her periodic alimony. “Under Alabama law, periodic alimony consists of regular installment payments made from one spouse to anpther to enable the recipient spouse, to the extent possible, to maintain his or her standard of living as it existed during the marriage, i.e., the ‘economic status quo.’ Orr v. Orr, 374 So.2d 895, 897 (Ala.Civ.App.1979). A divorcing spouse is not automatically entitled to periodic alimony, Beckwith v. Beckwith, 475 So.2d 575, 577 (Ala.Civ.App.1985) (<HOLDING>), but the decision whether to award periodic
holding that periodic alimony is not mandatory holding that exhaustion is mandatory and jurisdictional holding that application note 6 is not mandatory holding that the statute is mandatory holding that the periodic characteristic disabling manifestation is part of the underlying recognized disability