As part of your case you may be asked to consider either claiming a share of your spouse’s pension or sharing your own pension funds with your spouse. This fact sheet provides some initial information on that process but you will also be given specific guidance by...
Pension on Divorce | Financial claims are not extinguished by a Final Divorce Order (formerly a Decree Absolute) and can still be pursued.
It is a quirk of the system that any pension sharing order has to be expressed as a percentage of the fund from which it is being taken. Pension funds are not the same as money in a bank.
If you did not think about pensions when you divorced, particularly if your divorce was after December 2000, you should speak to a lawyer to find out if this was something you should have looked at and whether it would be right for anything to be done about it now …
In family cases, there is often a point at which outside expertise needs to be brought in. This could be to value the family home, to value a business or to advise on how to value and share the parties’ pension funds. What are the steps to achieve this and what do you need to think about?