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Financial Remedies – Next Steps on the Road to Reform?

Financial Remedies – Next Steps on the Road to Reform?

1.1 On 18 December 2024 the Law Commission published its Scoping Report on financial remedies on divorce and dissolution.[[1]] The Scoping Report sets out our findings that the current law does not provide a cohesive framework in which couples going through a divorce can expect fair and sufficiently

Reflections on the Law Commission Scoping Report in Relation to Pensions on Divorce

Reflections on the Law Commission Scoping Report in Relation to Pensions on Divorce

Chapter 10 of the Law Commission’s Scoping Report is devoted solely to pensions, an issue to which its terms of reference specifically refer. The report makes for concerning reading; it notes that many divorcing couples separate without a pension sharing arrangement in place and that some do not even

Book Review: Pensions on Divorce: A Practitioner’s Handbook (4th Edition)

Book Review: Pensions on Divorce: A Practitioner’s Handbook (4th Edition)

https://classlegal.com/products/pensions-on-divorce-a-practioners-handbook-4th-edition The 3rd edition of this handbook appeared in 2018, stating the law as at January 2018, and so a new 4th edition is to be heartily welcomed. The 7-year interval has seen two reports from the Pension Advisory Group (in 2019 and 2024), important reforms