I’m trying to wrap my head around this. A friend of mine is going through a divorce and for the longest time his wife made more than him. He built up a 401(k) and a full retirement pension. He is also 3/4 of the way through a second pension. He will have been married for over 12 years. From what we have read, it seems his wife is going to get half of the pensions and 401(k). She never started a 401(k) or stayed long enough to get a pension at any one job. It just seems weird that one person was diligent about retirement and the other was not but only one is going to lose out.