Pension sharing orders are now used more often than pension attachment or earmarking orders because they give couples a clean break on divorce and more certainty around their retirement finances ...

Any income that they enjoy must be deployed first to repaying the mortgage. They will not have time enough from perhaps their early 50s until retirement in which to put more money into a pension fund.

The figures, obtained from the Ministry of Justice by law firm Collyer Bristow, show that the number of so-called “pension sharing orders” rose to 11,503 in the year to March 2017, up from ...

This is known as a pension sharing order. Pensions can only be shared if the court order on divorce has been made by the judge. In England and Wales, the total value of the pensions each person ...