Pensions

Can anyone help. My husband and I were married for eight years. I have been paying into a Teacher Pension Scheme for the last sixteen years. Seven of those years were full time teaching, the last eleven years only part time. My husband has never or does not have a pension at all even though he has worked full time during all this time. Does anyone know or have experience of how the Courts will look at this. I have custody of our two daughters who are both under age seven. The full financial settlements have not been agreed as yet. It seems so unfair that my ex husband has never made any provision for his pension and yet may be able to claim some of mine when I am left to care for and bring up my daughters.

Your pension will be part of the assets to go into the pot to be shared out by you and your husband. As the primary carer of your daughters you will get the larger share I'm sure.

It may not seem fair - but presumably all the time you were married you weren't demanding he pay into a pension scheme were you?

I don't think its fair that my husband and I were both agreed I'd be a stay at home mum, so I gave up wellpaid job to do this, assuming we'd share his pension, only for him to leave me for someone else and spend more money on her children than he does on his own. If I'd known in advance I would have booted him out years ago and got back into work before I became too old.

Life isn't fair.