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We have produced a short guide that explores the different stages of getting a financial remedy through the courts in the context of divorce or dissolution.
There are four stages and the guide looks at each of them in turn:
“I used to hope I was a great feminist role model because I work full-time often away from home. I was the breadwinner, the high earner, the successful one………my husband’s work was no less important or interesting, but as a university lecturer, his was far less frenetic. He was at home more and usually did all the cooking for the children. He insisted on doing it anyway, at all times.
When parties divorce and the Courts become involved in resolving financial disputes, they can order that one party to the marriage pays the other spousal maintenance for a period of time, via a Periodical Payments Order (PPO).
Spousal maintenance is one of the orders that a court can make upon divorce. The amount of the maintenance is agreed at the time of the order; however, as a result of inflation, as time goes by the value of the maintenance awarded will decrease if it is not reviewed.
Here we explain what happens to your pension…
Since the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 the courts have had the power to share pensions between a couple in divorce or dissolution settlements.
