Your pension benefits can be worth a considerable amount, and if you go through a divorce/dissolution, the value of these benefits needs to be taken into account. This section tells you what the options are, and what we can do to help.

Before the court can decide how best to take the value of your benefits into account, they need to know just how much they are worth.

As the member, you or your solicitor can ask for this value (as can the court in special circumstances), but your husband, wife, civil partner or their solicitor cannot.

We have a team who will work out the value for you - this is basically the same type of ‘cash value’ as if you were transferring to another scheme.

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Once the court has the information they need about the value of your pension benefits, they will look at the various pension options:

Offsetting
Earmarking
Pension sharing

More about these options

Life cover
As a member you have valuable life cover in the form of a lump sum. If you have previously nominated your husband, wife or civil partner to receive this, you may want to fill in a new nomination form.

More about nomination in general

Time limits
There are strict time limits for sorting out the pension arrangements during a divorce or dissolution, so if you or your solicitor need information, please get in touch straightaway by calling our general helpline.

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