If you are a qualified cohabitant, you may apply for orders such as maintenance orders, property adjustment orders, and
pension adjustment orders and related orders such as attachment of earnings orders.
Orders such as protection orders, maintenance orders and
pension adjustment orders may be made in the course of court proceedings for the dissolution of civil partnerships in the same way as such orders may be made in judicial separation and divorce proceedings.
Where the court does not make
a pension adjustment order it may take into account the value of the pension and reflect this when making other financial orders.
Divorced people and those whose civil partnership has been dissolved may have access to some part of the pension scheme depending on whether or not
a pension adjustment order was made at the time of the divorce / dissolution.
Not exact matches
The ancillary relief proceedings were eventually compromised and the consent
order was made on 11 February 2007, whereby W accepted the provision in full and final settlement of all her claims for lump sum, property
adjustment and
pension sharing.
Those claims are, in the most part, set out in the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973), which enables the court, upon divorce, to make a number of different types of
order, ranging from lump sum and property
adjustment orders through to
pension sharing and maintenance
orders.
Many believe that England and Wales should follow suit and there is currently a Private Member's Bill before the House of Lords, the Cohabitation Rights Bill, with the objective of achieving just this which, if passed, would see the possibility of the likes of lump sum, property
adjustment and
pension sharing
orders being made within the context of disputes between former cohabitants.
Once completed, the husband and wife could not make claims for financial provision,
pension sharing and property
adjustment orders to each other.