Going through a divorce?
You may wish to get legal advice on how to deal with your LGPS benefits during any divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership proceedings. You and your partner will need to consider how to treat your pension rights as part of any settlement.
You may need specific information about your LGPS benefits as part of the proceedings. If this is the case then you or your solicitor should contact us for this information, including an estimate of the cash equivalent value (CEV) of your pension rights. The Court will take this value into account in your settlement.
You usually get one free CEV estimate each year. Any other costs for supplying information or complying with a Court Order will be recovered from you and/or your ex-spouse or ex-civil partner in accordance with a schedule of charges available from the Pensions Office.
Our booklet Pensions and Divorce[pdf - 166kb] looks at what happens to your LGPS benefits if you get divorced or your civil partnership is dissolved.
If you have previously made a nomination for someone to receive the death grant in the event of your death then you may wish to consider changing this. For more information on this please see our Death Grant Nomination - booklet and form[pdf - 1Mb] leaflet.
