Steps to take if your ex won’t provide details of the Cash Equivalent Transfer Value of a pension | Jones Myers
Our latest guest blog on The Divorce Magazine asks what you need to do if your ex won’t provide details of the Cash Equivalent Transfer Value of a pension.
First, you need to find out if a pension exists. A useful first step is to take advantage of the Government’s Pension Tracing Service – an online database containing details of all workplace and personal pension schemes.
Although you won’t be able to search your partner’s details, you can make an application to the court for them to be forced to make search by putting in all of their past and current employers, together with any personal pension providers that might be relevant. This won’t give you the value of the pension, but it will tell you who the provider is and give you details of where to write for more information.
To make that happen, the non-member spouse’s solicitor would send a copy of the application for a pension sharing order direct to the pension supplier. It is then obliged to provide certain information to the member, including the value of the pension benefits. If the member spouse refuses to disclose that information, an application can be made to the court for a separate order for this information to be provided.
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