My long term partner and I are not married - we've been together 12 years. We have 2 children under 5. Since having children I have been working part time and making minimal contribution to my pension and he works full time and puts £2k a month into his private pension pot (has been for a while).
If we were to get married, and say in 10 years time the marriage broke down and we divorced, would I be entitled to half of his pension pot or only the bit since we were married?
We are happy and I can't see us splitting up but I need to protect myself in case we do. I know it seems a strange thing to consider marriage in case of divorce but by me working part time I'm enabling him to work full time and build up a big pension pot.
thanks in advance.