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Pensions on Divorce: Practical Hurdles and the Gender Pension Gap

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The UK pension sharing system often results in poor outcomes for divorced women due to its complexity and low uptake. Practical issues like timing delays, unresponsive ex-spouses, and fluctuating pension credit values further...more

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I’m 58 and I Have “This” Much. Can I Retire?

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We have lamented these articles in a prior blog where we advised readers to “Know Thy Expenses” before stepping into any kind of retirement. People read these articles looking for solace in their own plans. Yet, until you...more

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Make Sure To Enter QDROs At The Time Of Divorce

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We recently received a favorable appellate decision on behalf of our client whose ex-husband tried to manipulate their divorce agreement regarding distribution of his New Jersey PERS pension (“pension”) nearly three decades...more

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Pension Justice Done; But Along A Rocky Road

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On April 30, 2019, the Superior Court published a panel decision related to a retirement benefit divided in divorce. This wasn’t just any pension, but one established for a Pennsylvania municipality. As this author learned...more

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Equitable Remedies For Ex-Spouses Who Lost Their Share Of A Military Pension Due To The Military Spouse’s Receipt Of Disability...

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Divorces involving a spouse in the military generally involve unique issues. In the recently published decision of Fattore v. Fattore, the Appellate Division held that the trial court cannot replace, “dollar for dollar”, an...more

Hogan Lovells

Same-sex survivors' pensions - exemption for pre-2005 service invalid

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The Supreme Court in Walker v Innospec Limited, overturning the Court of Appeal, has decided that the exemption for service prior to December 2005 from the requirement for occupational pension schemes to give survivors'...more

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Beware the Retroactive QDRO

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Employers know that they must honor qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs) that assign a portion of a retirement benefit to a participant’s former spouse, known as an alternate payee, when the participant and alternate...more

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