Sharing retirement funds

Most of the draft legislation for the new pension sharing on divorce provisions has now been published. Pension sharing will be available to divorcing couples who start their proceedings after the effective date of the new legislation, which is expected to be the end of the year. A pension sharing order will be effected in one of the following ways: a court order made in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland; a qualifying agreement made by the couple which can be made on or after the dissolution of the marriage; or an order for financial relief made in England, Wales, Scotland or N...