by an “exact number and amount of payments ‘without other limitations, conditions or statements of intent,’ ” so that the amount of the award is not contingent on future events but rather is ascertainable at the time the divorce decree is entered. Rivera v. Rivera, 283 Ga. 547, 548 (661 SE2d 541) (2008) (citation omitted). Accordingly, “(a)limony in gross, or in a lump sum, is in the nature of a final property settlement,” Daniel, 277 Ga. at 871-872 (citations omitted), and such an award cannot be modified. See Rivera, 283 Ga. at 548. Wife argues that Husband’s obligation to maintain term life insurance f the obligation of one spouse to carry life insurance for the benefit of the other spouse is a form of periodic alimony. See Hawkins v. Hawkins, 268 Ga. 637, 638 (491 SE2d 806) (1997) (<HOLDING>); Sapp, 259 Ga. at 240 (explaining that,
holding that insureds widow as beneficiary of life insurance policy had standing as an injured person under the insurance code holding change of beneficiary effective where city employee listed a new beneficiary for his group life insurance policy in an employee personal data form next to the words designated beneficiary even though this did not comply with the policy terms holding that alimony obligation was discharged by social security payments received by the wife holding that husbands obligation to pay premiums on a life insurance policy for five years with wife as the beneficiary was periodic alimony recognizing that family court may under special circumstances require a supporting spouse to secure an alimony obligation with a life insurance policy