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Attorney Wynne Whitman ’86 is the coauthor, with her sister Stacy Whitman, of a new how-to book for young women. Shacking Up: The Smart Girl’s Guide to Living in Sin Without Getting Burned offers humorous yet sensible advice on negotiating the emotional, financial, legal, and family issues involved in living with a “significant other” outside of marriage. Published in March by Broadway Books, Shacking Up has been praised by Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal, Glamour, and others.
The sisters decided to tackle the subject after Stacy moved in with her then-boyfriend (they’ve since gotten married). “We realized there wasn’t much information out there for women trying to make a smart decision about whether to live together before marriage,” Wynne says.
A specialist in tax and estate law, Wynne wrote the chapters on legal and money issues. Her sister, a freelance magazine writer, focused on communications and relationship questions. They edited each other’s work. “Actually we’ve done this before. We had ghostwritten two books together, so we had an ‘in’ with the publisher. This time we decided we should have our own names on the book,” she explains.
An economics and business graduate, Whitman received a J.D. from Seton Hall Law School, an L.L.M. (in taxation) from Villanova University, and an M.B.A. from Fordham University. An attorney with Schenck, Price, Smith & King in Morristown, N.J., she is a past president of Lafayette College Alumni Association and the daughter of Gladstone T. Whitman ’49.