Division of finances

[WakeTheUnion]

I'm posting on behalf of a friend who is about to start divorce proceedings. What's the general expectation with finances when it comes to dividing everything up? The house will be sold and at the moment my friend expects a 50:50 split with that. There are various bank accounts, some joint and some individual. Do they hang on to whatever's in their own accounts and split the joint accounts evenly? The DCs are adults so presumably don't come into it. Friend has no pension to speak of but the ex does.

I'd be grateful for any information anyone can give.

She needs proper legal advice.
If she has no pension because she stopped work to bring up the now grown children, she should be claiming a % of his pension, for example.
50/50 (including pension!) is just a start point.
The name on accounts is neither here nor there.
Everyone's circumstances are different, which is why she needs proper advice.

True. Our split was more like 80:20