limbo

i am a retired police officer...some 16 months ago ex wife was granted 25% share in my police pension..the pension administrator reqd us to pay admin fee of £378 each...I have paid mine...ex wife hasn't...pension provider has written numerous times reminding her to pay and has only ever had 1 response saying her solicitors where dealing with it....the solicitors have been written to and they have advised her to pay admin fee......I have written to court and was initially told to pay a court fee to get guidance....I asked again and the letter I got back from the district judge was if one party doesn't abide by the financial order it is a matter for them...so 15 months down the line the pension administrators have returned the court order to the court as cancelled ....I continue to get a full pension....how do I stand re this...I have tried and tried to get the pension people to sort but they haven't been able to....I am unwilling to pay further monies out in fees etc to give my pension away.....legally how do I stand...will I have to pay back...the pension people have said they will tell court not to back date to date of original order as that has been cancelled....im in limbo

Easy solution would be for you just to put 25% of your pension into an isa or similar and if it does come back to bite you in the future then you hve made some interest on it.
The ball is not in your court and if someone doesn't suddenly claim then you win. By saving the 25% you protect yourself (from overspending lol!!!)

Would u just sit tight then and put money aside. The order has been cancelled and returned to court. Not payable for another 11 years but don't want her having claim on my assets. It was a Clean Break order

I'm slightly confused - is the pension in payment? (you say you continue to get a full pension, then that it's not payable for another 11 years).

If it's in payment then presumably the value of her 25% share will go down as time goes by, but if you are still working and accruing pension then it will go up in value. 25% in ten years would then be worth much more than it is today.

Yes I still get full pension as I am retired. The 25% she was awarded should be placed in a separate pension scheme for her and becomes payable when she is 60 in 11 years time. However because she hasn't paid admin fee nor communicated with pension administrators they hav returned the pension share order to court as not complied with hence why I get full amount

I thought that was the most likely explanation.

So she is not gaining anything by not complying with the court order.

I'd be tempted to just let things be. If she wants to resurrect it in the future she will have to apply to court again. In the meantime you have your full pension.

If she had got the pension share now then you would be in what is sometimes called the 'pension gap' in that you would immediately lose 25% but she would not gain pension. Sometimes orders are written to do a pension attachment first, then a pension share when she is old enough to benefit.

I can't see you need to save 25% of your pension in order to give it to her eventually as she would not have got that money if she had followed through with the original order.

But that money would be taken off me now and invested for her so she could claim a pension at aged 60 in 11 years time. So u say sit tight and see what happens. The court nor pension provider are doing any thing else to enforce order so it has been cancelled