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überhaupt unterschiedlich hohe Anwartschaften

English translation: different amounts accrued ....

23:23 Oct 21, 2008
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Law/Patents - Law (general) / Divorce
German term or phrase: überhaupt unterschiedlich hohe Anwartschaften
Sofern ueberhaupt unterschiedlich hohe Anwartschaften beider Ehegatten auszugleichen sind, ist deshalb die Antragsstellerin auf den schuldrechtlichen Versorgungsausleich angewiesen.
Lorna O'Donoghue
Local time: 07:11
English translation:different amounts accrued ....
Explanation:
Should an adjustment of pension expectancies be required due to different amounts accrued by the spouses, the pension rights adjustment for the petitioner will be effected in the form of an equalisation annuity.
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Johanna Timm, PhD
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Local time: 23:11
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3 +2different amounts accrued ....
Johanna Timm, PhD
4The stress is missing...
David Moore (X)
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Ingeborg Gowans (X)

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different amounts accrued ....


Explanation:
Should an adjustment of pension expectancies be required due to different amounts accrued by the spouses, the pension rights adjustment for the petitioner will be effected in the form of an equalisation annuity.

Johanna Timm, PhD
Canada
Local time: 23:11
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agree  Ingeborg Gowans (X): I just couldn't warp my tongue around the structure of this sentence, but you did it for me. Thanks, Johanna
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agree  Derek Gill Franßen: ...with a nod to Ingeborg's and David's explanations. :)
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1 day 14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
The stress is missing...


Explanation:
The German could IMO have been written a teensy-weensy bit more understandably with the "überhaupt" following "Anwartschaften beider Ehegatten"; as it is, I think the underlying meaning has been missed.

I read it as implying that there MAY be no need for the "unterschiedlich hohe Anwartschaften" to be "ausgeglichen", and would therefore suggest:

"If it is (in fact/ at all / in practice) necessary to...", which includes the force of the "überhaupt".

David Moore (X)
Local time: 08:11
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Reference: from Wikipedia

Reference information:
Entitlement is a guarantee of access to benefits because of rights, or by agreement through law. It also refers, in a more casual sense to someone's belief that one is deserving of some particular reward or benefit.[1] It is often used as a pejorative term in popular parlance (i.e. a 'sense of entitlement').

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  • in this context it could well mean entitlement to pensions for both parents
Ingeborg Gowans (X)
Canada
Native speaker of: German
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agree  Inge Meinzer: Warum stellst du *entitlements* nicht ein, Ingeborg?
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