A Consent Order is a legally binding document that finalises a divorcing couple's agreement on property, pensions and other assets.
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Now that you can take a cash lump sum from any pension at age 50, could a DJ order a pension member to use that lump sum to replace/capitalise spousal maintenance at age 50?
Yes.Or at least, a DJ has the power to capitalise a maintenance order as a quid pro quo for the extinguishment of the SM. Of course, what a Court can do and what it will do in practice are different things.