David Lockett , M.A. (Oxon)
2001 to date: providing expert witness work and evidence in family and employment matters.
Co author of three editions of:
“Unlocking Matrimonial Assets on Divorce” and “Pensions and Divorce: A Practitioner’s Handbook”
Speaker and co-author of training on pensions on divorce at The Judicial College.
I have provided over 250 seminars on the subject.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualification
- M.A. (Oxon) 1982
Education
- Oxford University 1979 - 1982
- Oxford University 1982 - 1989
1 Contributions by David Lockett
PRACTICE NOTES
Implementing pension sharing and attachment orders on divorce/dissolution: practical guidance for trustees of occupational pension schemes in England and Wales
This Practice Note applies solely to occupational pension schemes and is intended for trustees; accordingly, it does not cover compensation sharing orders for schemes within the Pension Protection Fund. From 5 December 2005, following the Civil Partnership Act 2004, pension attachment and pension sharing orders were broadened to include the dissolution of civil partnerships for same-sex couples. Cohabiting partners are outside the scope of both orders, as cohabitation does not confer a right to obtain either. Throughout this Practice Note, any reference to an ex-spouse should therefore be read as including an ex-civil partner...
Court orders which trustees may have to implement
A married member’s pension entitlement may constitute the sole, or principal, asset built up during the marriage. When the marriage breaks down, the court may, as a result, redistribute between the parties the benefits arising from pension resources in situations where offsetting—by which the value of the pension resources is set against the value of other assets held between the parties—is not possible or not desirable...
Pensions
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