Warning for thousands of divorcing women who are missing out on slice of £4billion pot – how to avoid it

THOUSANDS of women are missing out on up to £4billion a year by ignoring their ex’s pension, new figures provided to The Sun show.

A change to the law in 2000 meant pensions would start being included as part of a divorce settlement, but last year only around 30% of splitting couples opted to do so.  

Women could be missing out on between £1.8billion and £4billion a year, according to estimates...