When I married there was no such thing as pension sharing - it wasn’t in the “contract”....you know the contract we are never shown but apparently sign up to in a church service!!
Then it came in to protect women who were the old fashioned Stepford types and gave up work to support their dear hubby and stay at home baking apple pie for the cherubs. They found when they were divorced they had no pension... so the law changed.
Now it’s 2018. I am a woman and I am raising my kids plus have worked throughout in a difficult job with difficult hours - I juggled being home with the kids and working.
My hubby had an easier job and lower pay and longer holidays.
Cue the divorce. He wants to strip me of my pension and 65% of the assets. He resents paying child maintenance and has made it clear my DS at uni won’t get a penny from him.
The pension sharing was clearly aimed at protecting partners who had never worked. But I will lose out and will have my kids to support.
He has turned justice on its head. Or would you say it’s fair? I cannot begin to explain how unjust this seems to me.