Wood

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County awarding to respondent $100 per month for her support and maintenance during the period of one year, and the sum of $100 attorney’s fees expended by her for the prosecution of the action.

The complaint was filed on the twelfth day of August, 1929. The cause was tried on September 24, 1929, and the judgment filed on October 7th of the same year.

Appellant presents but two grounds for reversal of the judgment which are necessary for us to consider on this appeal. He maintains, first, that the portion of the judgment awarding attorney’s fees to the respondent, gave her this money as fees for past services of the attorney and, second, that as the action was commenced on August 12, 1929, and the amendment of that year to section 137 of the Civil Code did not go into effect until the fourteenth day of August, 1929, the amended portion of the section could not be held effective in so far as this action is concerned.

This is an appeal upon the judgment-roll. We must, therefore, assume that every necessary step' was taken in the court below to support the judgment (E. E. McCalla Co. v. Sleeper, 105 Cal. App.…