BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court has told a man that the pension he used to share with his ex-wife must now be shared with her widowed husband, authorities said on Thursday. Bernhard Wanwitz, a judge at the administrative court in the western city of Mainz, said the man withdrew an appeal to keep his entire pension when the court said the widower was entitled to a share of his late wife's divorce settlement. Under German law, when a couple divorces, the ex-spouse with the smaller pension has a right to top-up payments from the other's pension. ------------------------------------- Where do we go from here?10 responses total.
Never get married in Germany. You could end up supportying who-knows how many people with alimony?
The question is, what do you care? Are you and Twila getting divorced?
Even if they were, why would he still care, he's not in Germany
This is why God invented therapists.
PROVE IT.
I think we're just supposed to shake our heads and say, "Those wacky Germans! I sure am glad I live in the U.S., where pretty soon we won't get pensions at all!"
lol
You've been reading too much "Tom Tomorrow", gull. :)
If the widower starts making more money (or gets a better pension) than the ex-husband, does the widower owe the ex-husband part of his pension, too?
It's okay. They wouldn't let any of you be German citizens anyway, unless your father were German. So no worries.
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