Pensions in Family Law – a story of ”unintended discrimination”?
Pension sharing orders have been in existence now for well nigh 20 years since their introduction on 1 December 2000. The aim was, as the name suggests, that pensions could be split or shared going forwards, to create fairness between spouses and civil partners on divorce or dissolution. However, research highlights that pension inequality is rife, both in general terms and subsequent to divorce.