Pensions

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I am seeing my solicitor next week to go over final draft of separation agreement. Has anyone experience of pension splits. My husband worked full time in a jail for sixteen years and I worked five years full time and fourteen years part time say 60% as I dropped my hours to 22. My husband has hid all his paperwork up and has started saying things like your pensions worth more than mine. We had discussed not going after each others pensions or savings and had agreed on 50/50 split. Children grown up and I have the potential to earn good money. To me it doesn't seem worth pursuing anything but his attitude has pissed me off. He won't talk about anything except how can he be sure I won't go after things!

If you fail to disclose the transfer values of your respective pensions then your separation agreement is pointless as it isn't a binding agreement.

Your solicitor is a bit crap if they haven't already told you this.

It's really just to sell the house they won't go any further with the house sale. I know it's just a piece of paper for £610.

It isn't though. It is a document that could make it harder for you to get your full entitlement on divorce.

Anyone who will draft a separation agreement for 610 quid and no disclosure is a cowboy. They are not looking after your best interests. They are almost certainly harming them.

Why don’t you just get divorced and do finaincal order? That won’t cost much more than £610 to do it all and be done.

Why do you need it for house sale?