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24 Jul 07 #1525 by ALEXANDER
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ok..bit confused ..bear with me...i don`t have a pension , my husband always said don`t worry..his CETV value is approx £333,000. we are both 53....so what might this mean for me...sorry to be so thick..all of this is getting to me

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24 Jul 07 #1527 by charlie
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Alexander,

It just means that:

1) The pension is part of the pot, and is up for grabs

2) It is not worth as much as the equivalent cash.

So if you are agreeing to split everything 50:50.

Then u could take half the cash each and half pension each.

But to split it:
- 750K cash for one of you
- and 420K cash plus 330K CETv pension for the other one
is not fair cos one person has 750k of readily usable cash and the other person has a chunk of their share tied up in the pension.

So a fairer split might be to regards pension as only worth
200K. So you split 685k cash vs 485kcash+pension.

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24 Jul 07 #1528 by charlie
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Alexander,

It just means that:

1) The pension is part of the pot, and is up for grabs

2) It is not worth as much as the equivalent cash.

So if you are agreeing to split everything 50:50.

Then u could take half the cash each and half pension each.

But to split it:
- 750K cash for one of you
- and 420K cash plus 330K CETv pension for the other one
is not fair cos one person has 750k of readily usable cash and the other person has a chunk of their share tied up in the pension.

So a fairer split might be to regards pension as only worth
200K. So you split 685k cash vs 485kcash+pension.

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