Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Whining over the wine

It seems the Germanys are at it again in court.  Attorney Bob Germany sued attorney Barry Gilmer and several other parties over the sale of his wine collection.  Mr. Gilmer represents his ex-wife Ginger.   Mr. Germany accused  Ginger and the defendants of selling his wine collection for $203,500 without his consent as well as keeping the proceeds of the sale.  Mr. Germany claims the collection was worth more than $400,000.


Mr. Germany claimed the sale violated a court order and was part of a scheme to defraud him.  To say there is bad blood between the parties is putting it mildly. Mrs. Germany sued Mr. Germany and Holly Morgan in 2011 for all kinds of things such as fraud, breach of contract, and other torts.  Mr. Germany filed for divorce and the legal morass soon filled up the courts.   These cases are still active in  Hinds and Madison counties.   Mr. Germany alleged fraud, unjust enrichment, common law fraud, and other torts against the defendants as he asked for punitive and compensatory damages.  Read the complaint posted below. Its rather, um, interesting. The inventory begins on page 52. 


17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where do you find $400k worth of wine in Mississippi? That's a whole lot of Barefoot!

Anonymous said...

KF - That's a nice touch with the Briarwood Wine & Spirits ad...haha.

Anonymous said...

2:14: The wine was in AZ.
Ex. 1 to the Complaint is red hot. Money does not equal happiness, does it? What complicated webs we weave.

Anonymous said...

God I hope he didn't get 400k of vino from here. Cause if he did it ain't worth 400k. Unless he bought cult wine by the case load. MS Doesn't have enough French to stock an igloo cooler.

Anonymous said...

Once White Trash with money; now just White Trash. BTW that is all of them.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like the Germanys deserve each other.

Anonymous said...

First World Problems.

Anonymous said...

At least give this much to Ginger: Still pretty cute!

Anonymous said...

Bob was a very sharp attorney early in his career; I referred several med mal cases to him [none of which went anywhere on the merits] but he seems to have fallen off the tracks in the last few years. I wish things had gone better for him and all of his family.

Anonymous said...

Ha! You obviously know nothing about Bob Germany! Nice try!

Anonymous said...

"Buy another collection, you rich motherf*cker!!!!!"

-Rick James

Anonymous said...

Bless Holly's heart, she had to sell her hardware store.

Anonymous said...

The cursed tobacco money sure has made some attorneys appear to have gone bad.One thing is for sure,the IRS will get their money first and the rest can be fought over.

Anonymous said...

There is no good reason that a financial settlement in a divorce should go on for more than a year.

It's a fool who doesn't sit down and negotiate a reasonable split of assets.

The judges need to come down hard on the fools.

Whatever " gains" fighting it out might win are lost in legal fees and fees to forensic accountants and others hired . Most often, the party without liquidity has to get credit and the interest fees are often ridiculous.

Some attorneys charge what should be still seen as loan sharking on their fees while waiting for the court to order money to be awarded.

Then there's the damage done within the families and social relationships.

When children are involved it is especially horrendous.

Everybody loses except the attorneys.

The judges in this state ought to be ashamed of themselves to let this nonsense continue.

The legislature ought to be ashamed for whatever role they have played in allowing what was a community property state turn into this kind of legal nightmare.

The " wine" should have been listed as a marital asset, appraised and either been auctioned and the proceeds split down the middle or else offset by an equal value of other assets awarded if no agreement could be reached.

Time limits should be given to identify marital assets to the court with heavy jail time to any party who hides assets and disbarment to any attorney who helps his client hide assets.

Support for any children should be absolutely enforced from day one and paid directly to the court with heavy penalties immediately enforced with any failure to support.

And, any asset that has ever been in the personal use of the family, be it a car or a condo in Destin or a depreciated antique or painting should be seen by the court as a "gift" to the family and forfeited as a marital asset!

Any assets or large sums of money transferred to a family member or business associate within 2 years of filing for a divorce should be deemed a marital asset as well!












Frum Afar said...

Barry has skated numerous times. Maybe his shit will catch up with him on this one.

Anonymous said...

Gilmer is a disgrace to professional lawyers! This is all insane!

Anonymous said...

8:15, Just who is not a disgrace to the legal profession? The entire bunch of lawyers through out this state are all about making money any way they can while doing sloppy work. So, name a good honest and fair one??


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