Pensions on Divorce
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Public Sector Pensions Remedy (Mccloud) Changes to Benefits from 1 October 2023 – Implications for Pensions on Divorce Settlement
The purpose of this blog is to point out one aspect of the changes taking place for most Public Sector Schemes from 1 October 2023 and, as a result of that, what action may be needed.
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!16/08/2023 08:17
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Pensions on Divorce – Standard Family Order Template and Short Marriages
This article deals with two points. The first relates to the publication of the new pension sharing order (PSO) template at paragraph number 95 in the Standard Family Orders suite. The second relates to the issue of short marriages in the context of pensi…
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!03/07/2023 08:00
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Joanne Lewis v Cunningtons Solicitors [2023] EWHC 822 (KB)31 March 2023
HHJ Coe KC. Successful negligence claim in relation to pensions advice on divorce.The Claimant, after receiving some advice from the Defendants, but in the absence of full disclosure, entered into direct discussions with her husband and then instructed th…
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Pensions on Divorce – Standard Family Order Template
This article relates to the publication of the new pension sharing order (PSO) template at paragraph number 95 in the Standard Family Orders suite.
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!17/05/2023 16:22
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S v S (Conduct: Pensions) [2022] EWFC 17611 March 2023
HHJ Robinson. Financial remedy proceedings involving a police officer who was convicted of serious offences including rape of his W. H pension was permanently deducted by 1% following proceedings brought by his Local Police and Crime Commissioner. The…
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- Conduct
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Déjà Vu with Public Sector Pension CEVs Being Suspended – Again
At the risk of sounding like Brenda from Bristol, when informed Theresa May had called a General Election, and saying, “You’re joking. Not another one,” it was only a matter of time. Those of you who have been dealing with finances on di…
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!11/04/2023 11:27
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Pensions on Divorce – Lifetime Allowance Tax Issues
A favourite film of one of the authors is Apollo 13. At one point, whilst trying to work out what had to happen to get the ill-fated space craft home, Commander Jim Lovell said: ‘All right, there’s a thousand things that have to happen in orde…
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- Lifetime Allowance Tax
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!27/03/2023 09:14
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KM v CV [2022] EWFC 1741 March 2023
HHJ Robinson. Case concerning pensions where neither party had any capital. FMH had been sold with £10,000 left after payment of mortgage and costs.Case concerned treatment of W’s two police pensions. Pension expert, Mr Nobbs, concluded equalis…
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Valuing Pensions on Divorce: CMX v EJX
Cases involving pension commentary are rare from the Family Court at High Court level, and so it was with great interest I found myself digesting the judgment by Moor J in the recent case of CMX v EJX (French Marriage Contract) [2022] EWFC 136…
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!13/12/2022 13:45
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YC v ZC [2022] EWFC 13717 October 2022
HHJ Hess. After over 30 years of marriage, the husband’s ('H') application for financial remedy. H was a 60-year-old businessman, described by the judge at [6] as ‘a driven character with … a tendency to … take personal and financial risks and live life ‘…
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