This may, or may not have relevance, but pension split dealings with Armed Forces Pensions are pretty fraught. I paid my barrister £850 for his legal advice that the pension split would not take effect until the house had been sold (to avoid her staying in the house, claiming no sale offers, while benefitting from the pension split). Total%$&!"&* . House unsold for six months, AFPS started the split on the decree absolute date, DIDN'T inform me until seven months later, but continued paying me the pre-split rate. The first I knew about it was a demand for repaying overpayment of £7,000!! The subsequent correspondence with AFPS and Xaffinity was heated but ultimately left me with about 8% of my original pension for some years until the balance is paid off. Moral - do not expect efficiency from AFPS and DO NOT TRUST LAWYERS!!
