In Reply to: Re: Widows pension questions posted by Maurice on 16 December 2006 at 09:11:04:
:At the risk of flogging a dead horse, what I meant was that the actual divorce itself does not mean there's a gain or loss. If the member who gets divorced lives another twenty years, the trust pays the pension for twenty years. If there's no divorce, but both member and spouse die within a year, the trust pays the pension for less than a year.
To determine whether the trust gains or loses as a result of post-retirement divorces would require both a great deal of statistical analysis and some assumptions about the effect of divorce or unhappy marriages on life expectancy.