Thursday, November 1, 2007

Sorry, Ms. Jackson

I came across this story of Willie Gary, the Johnnie Cochran of the East Coast, and his former lover and the mother of his twin six year-olds. Apparently, he paid her a lump sum of money when the children were born, but it tail spun into this:


Lawyer must pay $28,000 a month in child support
Court sides with Atlanta mother of Florida multimillionaire's twins

By BETH WARREN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/30/07

When Atlanta resident Diana Gowins gave birth to twins fathered by a married multimillionaire, she felt her children deserved the finer things in life.

The father, high-profile Florida-based attorney Willie Gary, gave his former lover money for the twins, but when he felt she was misusing the child support, he took her to court in November 2005. Gary convinced Fulton County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Wright to reduce his payments from $28,000 a month to $5,000.


However, the Georgia Court of Appeals issued a decision Friday siding with the mother, tossing out the judge's order to reduce the father's payments.

Gary's Atlanta attorney, Kenny Schatten, said he is considering appealing to the Georgia Supreme Court.

Schatten said Gary only challenged how much he pays for his 6-year-old daughter and son after he discovered that Gowins stopped putting money into a college fund and spent much of the cash on herself. Gary's attorneys have accused Gowins, who lives in a $600,000 home in south Atlanta, of splurging on designer clothes, a Steinway piano, cruises without the kids and a tummy tuck. She also spent thousands on private school tuition and diamonds for her oldest child, a teenage daughter from a previous relationship, Gary argued in court documents.


The Fulton judge told Gowins, a former nurse, to go to work and watch her lavish spending, but she refused, saying she has a right to be a stay-at-home mom [Ha!].


All I gots to say is, hmph. What do you think? Can you blame Gowins? (You KNOW those splurging allegations are true.) Do you think Gary should suck it up because he can afford it? How much is too much?



Girl, you can afford MAC, get on it!