Divorce rules set for 2000

By Jenne Mannion The long-awaited regulations providing for pension sharing on divorce should be operating in the UK by late in 2000 The pension sharing regulations were issued for consultation last week by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine. These stated that the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act ­ which would introduce provisions for ancillary relief in proceedings for divorce, judicial separation or nullity ­ will be brought forward from the date anticipated by the industry of April 2001 to late in 2000 That date finds the middle ground between the date initially proposed, by the former a...