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Divorce and Pensions advice please!

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ProbablyMe · 19/08/2014 14:18

Hello!

My STBEXH and I have been going through the divorce process for about 20 months. We were together for 17 years ore separation. We have amicably come to arrangements regarding our 4 DS and maintenance and the only extant financial issue is his pension although we have agreed a 60/40 split in his favour to take into account some debts relating to the marriage that his has cleared. We have no savings or property to divide and I have no pension of my own. I have a solicitor but he has refused to get one of his own.

Decree Nisi was issued 12 months ago but since then things have really slowed down - mainly due to my ex's refusing to acknowledge receipt of letters from my solicitor, delaying his replies to any communication received etc. He was asked to provide the Cash Equivalent Transfer Value for his pension 10 months ago - it's required for the Statement of Information that we both need to complete and today he has finally emailed me a copy of the valuation provided by his current pension provider.

Problem is, the valuation that he has provided only dates back to 2009. He has been with with the company for 16 years now and his pension started in 2000 and at that point was with a different company.

I suspect he is trying to, at best, delay the process a bit more or, at worst, trying to avoid providing a full picture of his pension situation.

I have emailed my solicitor regarding all of this but she has never been very helpful re financial matters (tried to get me not to request a pension sharing order in the first place as it would be faster). Can anyone tell me if there is a way to compel my ex to provide all of his pension information? I have pointed out to him that he has accounted for his pension policy from 200-2009 but, unsurprisingly, he has gone rather quiet!!

Thanks!!

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Collaborate · 19/08/2014 14:30

Is it possible that he's transferred out of that scheme? Is it money purchase or a defined benefits (i.e. final salary) scheme?

There's no reason why he cannot get an up to date transfer value. Delay works in your favour though if he's still contributing to the scheme. You get 40% of a larger fund.