RALEIGH — A Campbell Law School alumna and a third-year student have co-authored a new book about prenups.
Gailor Family Law Litigation Clinic Staff Attorney Carlie Spencer ‘20 and Olivia Reiff ’25 recently published “The Prenup Girl’s Guide to a Successful Marriage.” The book is available for purchase on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
According to the authors, the book ensures prenups are not just to protect your assets, but “to help you and your partner have a successful marriage.” According to Spencer and Reiff prenups “are for anyone who wants to enter marriage with eyes wide open and a plan in place.” The book works to bust myths and attack the stigma against prenups.
In the book, the authors describe prenups as a “personalized financial security blanket.” Many are under the impression the prenups are only for wealthy individuals, however Spencer says, “By busting these myths, we hope you see prenups for what they really are: a smart, loving way to protect yourselves and each other.”
Spencer joined Campbell Law as a supervising attorney in August 2024. Spencer, who currently works with Clinic Director Richard Waugamann ‘12, was named among the Top 40 Under 40 of National Trial Lawyers and was recognized among the 2023 and 2024 Super Lawyers Rising Stars and Legal Elite. Spencer currently serves as vice president on the executive board of Capital City Clauses, a non-profit that donates and supports local children’s charities in the Research Triangle area. Originally from Montgomery, Alabama, Spencer also won a variety of local pageant titles, Miss Cleveland, Miss Greensboro, Miss Raleigh and Miss Dunn, placing in the Top 10 at Miss North Carolina and earning thousands in scholarship dollars from the Miss America Opportunity program all while in law school. In 2017, Spencer graduated from Troy University, with a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics. While in law school, Spencer ran for Raleigh City Council in 2019, earned the National Mock Trial Outstanding Advocate Award, worked at the Lieutenant Governor’s Office, and participated in the Business Law Clinic. Since graduation, Spencer has narrowed her legal focus to family and prenup law, and in 2024, she launched her own law firm, Strive Law Firm, in Raleigh.
Reiff, who has been a legal assistant for the Strive Law Firm since May 2024, has served as a certified legal intern in the Gailor Family Law Litigation Clinic, as a paralegal at Hartsell and Williams PA and a legal assistant in the Silicon Valley Law Offices in Mountain View, California. She earned a bachelor’s degree in art conservation from the University of Delaware in 2020, a certificate in Non-Profit Management from Duke University in March 2021 and her paralegal certificate from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in December 2021.
Also during law school, Reiff was part of the winning team at the 2023 Kilpatrick Townsend 1L Mock Trial Competition at the University of North Carolina School of Law during her first year of law school and she has been a member of the Women in Law student organization, among others.
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