Opinion ID: 1650355
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Heading: Was the alimony award made in perpetuity?

Text: Of course, the order to pay petitioner $1,000 per month alimony was not intended to be unlimited as to time or conditions. The court's intent to review the award within one year probably accounted for the omission to specify situations which would cause such payments to terminate. In order to settle this issue, however, we hereby modify the decree to provide that the interim award and any subsequent modifying alimony award shall be paid only until petitioner remarries or until either party dies, whichever occurs first. Thus these issues will not require further litigation. See Myers v. Myers, 195 N.W.2d 113 (Iowa 1972); In re Roberts' Estate, 257 Iowa 1, 131 N.W.2d 458 (1964).