a b s t r a c tThis paper continues the project, initiated in (Arslanov, Cooper and Kalimullin 2003) [3], of describing general conditions under which relative splittings are derivable in the local structure of the enumeration degrees, for which the Ershov hierarchy provides an informative setting.The main results below include a proof that any high total e-degree below 0 ′ e is splittable over any low e-degree below it, a non-cupping result in the high enumeration degrees which occurs at a low level of the Ershov hierarchy, and a ∅ ′′′ -priority construction of a Π 0 1 e-degree unsplittable over a 3-c.e. e-degree below it.