Pension and Matrimonial Asset Valuers in Benfleet

At BTMK, our highly experienced solicitors can offer you expert legal advice when it comes to the value of assets. It is important to have professionals to correctly value matrimonial assets in the event of a divorce. We work alongside recommended professionals in the financial services industry to ensure you achieve the best outcome.

Services we can refer you to include:

• Accountants
• Actuaries
• Independent Financial Advisers (IFA)

These financial experts will evaluate your assets accordingly. We can then provide legal assistance and advice to help you understand the valuations and to give you an understanding of where a range of settlements may fall.

Matrimonial Asset Valuers in Benfleet

We work with specialist matrimonial asset valuers in Benfleet who can provide a thorough assessment of your assets, making sure your valuation is accurate. We work closely with the best in the industry to achieve excellent results and offer legal assistance and advice for your assets and to strategically deal with them to ensure you secure the best outcome for you and any family or children that may be living with you after a divorce situation.

Matrimonial assets can include:

• Shared property (i.e. the family home)
• Savings
• Investments
• Pensions
• Commercial Property or Residential buy to let property
• Shares or other financial instruments
• Trusts or other tax-efficient savings
• Trading Businesses or entities

If you need help and advice regarding your rights to assets, or protecting your assets, contact us today.

Pension Valuers

The experts that we work closely with can perform a valuation to assess how your pension scheme covers your needs. We can also offer legal advice for pension options in order to help guide you through a difficult time like divorce or the dissolution of a civil partnership.

These options include:

• Pension earmarking – a pension earmarking or attachment order will redirect either part of or all of the pension payments to the ex-spouse or civil partner, therefore an ongoing link will remain with the ex.
• Pension offsetting – this means your pension will be offset against your other assets of the same or similar value. This provides a clean break between parties.
• Pension sharing – the pension will be split immediately and each party has independent control of their share. This also provides a clean break.

The law in England and Wales specifies that financial assets you acquire during your marriage must be included when determining a fair division of the assets for a divorce. This includes if one party has paid into a pension during the marriage, both parties are entitled for it to be taken into account during the division of matrimonial assets.

Our experts

BTMK has the knowledge and experience working alongside third-party experts to determine the value of any relevant matrimonial assets when a division is to take place. Often, valuations may take place before a decision is made.