Can an attorney file a Motion to Show Cause if he no longer represents any party to the case involved?

In this case, the attorney is threatening to file a Motion to Show Cause against one of the parties. It was a divorce case. He represented the wife. And the husband was ordered to pay a small portion of the wife's attorney fees. He has not done so. However, the attorney no longer represents the wife. Will the attorney have to get the wife's permission before he can file this Motion? And if she refuses to grant him permission, is he unable to ever file this Motion?Can an attorney file a Motion to Show Cause if he no longer represents any party to the case involved?If the court order the ex-husband to pay part of the ex-wife鈥檚 legal fees, then the wife attorney is entitled to enforce that order even though attorney may no longer represent the wife, the order grants the lawyer standing to enforce the part which requires the ex-husband to pay the lawyer