Couples should discuss how future acquisitions will be considered. From a legal standpoint, those items are considered that individual’s separate property. Each person brings property into the marriage. Feelings about lending money to family members, living within a set monthly budget and how much debt is acceptable are also worthy of conversation. Other important issues include how much each might contribute financially to purchase of a home or car, whether retirement accounts will be established and how each views saving, investing and long-term financial goals. Couples should determine if they will share joint credit cards and bank accounts and whether income from all sources will be combined. Keeping a secret bank account is sure way to deal a serious blow to the marriage once the account is discovered. Disclosure of all financial accounts is a must. Spending habits and the existence of current debt should be disclosed. People about to join their lives should discuss if and how they will join their finances. Financial issues are a leading cause of divorce. These are some of the more important discussions for persons about to marry. Toward that goal, couples should take the time to explore some basic issues which will confront nearly all married couples. Others prefer to have a clearer view of the path on which they are about to embark. And it's refreshing to realize even accomplished (albeit fictional) attorneys have those same issues.Some couples see marriage as the beginning of a journey during which they will come to better know and love each other every day. I feel like the fish out of water feeling Pepper has throughout the book is one most feel at some point, especially during law school and when starting a new job or new field / area. I found during law school and now writing as a clerk, that like Pepper, you can try to build yourself up and write using big fancy "lawyerly" terms, but at the end of the day - the best way to get your point across is to do it in the way you feel most comfortable. I read this book during undergrad, again during my 1L year, and now again as a relatively new attorney working as a law clerk.ĭuring each of those periods I was (or am) struggling with communicating, especially in my writing, and was writing in a way I believed sounded more intelligent and more appropriate for a law student or lawyer, rather than writing with my own voice. One thing I really took away from Supreme Courtship, is that despite the humor in it, it had an excellent message. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule." Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature.
Will Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the Senate? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? And even if she can make it to the Supreme Court, how will she get along with her eight highly skeptical colleagues, including a floundering Chief Justice who, after legalizing gay marriage, learns that his wife has left him for another woman.
After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to reject her - Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six. “President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court.
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