>I'm trying to find a function in VFP8 that will return the decimal part of a number. eg 89.55 Should return 55

Try this.

val(GetWordNum( translate( 89.55 ),2,'.'))

but it will only work in VFP 7.0 or greater. For VFP 6.0, you need to use the WordNum() in Foxtools.fll instead of GetWordNum().