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You vandalized her house.

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It wasn't me.

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In the first video,
you can actually see him kick the door.

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It's not me, Your Honor.

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You stated that you were in Chicago?

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Yup.

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Doing what?

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Um...

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probably anything other than that.

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I believe that you did it.

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You're the judge.

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I am.

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[announcer] This is Judy Justice.

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[theme music playing]

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[announcer] Previously on Judy Justice.

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What I'm saying is in order
to park in one of the spots

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that's designated for a resident,
you needed a sticker...

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Well, she didn't tell me that.
She didn't relay that to me.

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[Judge Judy] I...listen.

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I'll let you talk.

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Right now, you have to understand,
I don't believe you.

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Again, that has nothing
to do with the slots.

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[Judge Judy]
You don't get rewarded for that.

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Now, we're gonna get to your counterclaim.

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You have a counterclaim.

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It is your claim
that the plaintiff burglarized your home.

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Yes.

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Did you see him there?

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I did not, but I have video footage.

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I'd like to see it.

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[announcer] And now the conclusion.

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Quincey Shegog has accused
his former friend with benefits,

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Regina Monegan, of driving his truck
without a license and totaling it.

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Regina claims he vandalized
her house in retaliation.

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Now, did you come to her house July 17th?

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No, I did not.

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[Judge Judy] Where were you on July 17th?

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In Chicago.

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Did you see him there?

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I did not, but I have video footage.

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I'd like to see it.

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Video one.

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[Judge Judy] Sarah, you're gonna have
to help me look at those, darling.

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'Cause I could never see these things
on these...

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- Oh, I touched something...
- [Sarah] I got it. I got it.

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Yeah, thank you.

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[Regina] It, it, it says video one.

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I also have still frames
of the same video.

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[Sarah]
You want me to pause it at that point?

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Yeah, I would like to see a face.

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See if you could find a...face for me.

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There are still frames
of the video that I took.

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Here, it's frame by frame.

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Could you turn your head
around a little bit?

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[Quincey] Which way?

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So I can see the back of your hair.

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I'd like to see those, Kevin.

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[Sarah] There's two videos, Your Honor,
so the second incident,

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I'm not sure if you wanna hear
about it first, or...

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Okay. So, he came...

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according to you...alone, on this video.

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Uh-hmm.

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Where did these pictures come from?

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I got them
from when I filed a police report.

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Um, I was released the actual disc
to the Minneapolis Public Housing.

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So, I took still frames off of it
and printed them.

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I had them printed out.

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Can I see the second video, Sarah?

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[Sarah] Spray painting.

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[Regina] Uh-huh.

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The second video is only him breaking
the back window and tagging my house.

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And spray painting it?

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[Regina] Yeah, and tagging my house.

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There's something,
breaking the window, it looks like.

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That's not me, Your Honor.

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Don't speak.

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Now, on July 17th,
you stated that you were in Chicago.

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Prove it.

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What do you mean prove it?

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[Judge Judy] Prove it.

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Just what I said to you, prove it.

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You know what she's accusing you of.

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She's accusing you
of vandalizing her house on July 17th,

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and again on August 19th.

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Well, I was doing
a Windy City Smokeout in Chicago

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around the same time I did
over in two weeks.

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Okay. In what event?

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Sarah is gonna look them up.

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Chicago Windy City Smokeout.

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July 17th, 2021.

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It was July 9th until July 11th, 2021.

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[Quincey]
Yeah, we set up and tear it down.

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That's all right, July 9th to July 11th.

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We're talking about July 17th...

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That's the event...
that's the event we have to tear down.

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- [Judge Judy] I understand that.
- Okay.

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So that took a long time.

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So, so far, we have July 9th to July 11th.

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Where were you on August 19th?

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(laughs) Probably still in Chicago.

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Doing what?

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Anything other than probably that.

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[Judge Judy] Okay.

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So, what you're telling me,
Mr. Shegog, is the following.

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That in 2019 and 2020,

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you visited with your daughter
every two weeks,

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according to you,
in Minneapolis, twice a month.

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- [Quincey] Right.
- [Judge Judy] But in July of 2021,

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you were at an event that takes you a week

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to break down
and takes you a week to set up.

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You want me to believe
that you didn't go in July,

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different from 2019,

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different from 2020, but in July of 2021,

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you didn't go twice a month
to see your daughter.

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Is that what you want me to believe?

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My daughter was down
in Florida at the time.

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You didn't go to see your daughter?

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No, I did not.

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[Judge Judy]
Who did you leave her with in Florida?

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My sister.

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I, I have my daughter for the summer,
but by me working,

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that's why I went down there
to let, let her

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have, um,
with my sister so I can go to work.

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Why didn't she stay with her mother
so that you can go to work?

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Because her mother
has her twenty-four hours,

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seven days a week already,
and I don't get to see my daughter.

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Why would you just take her...

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- [Quincey] Because it was only...
- ...to dump her with your sister?

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...because it was only a two week project.

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Yeah. You see what your problem,
Mr. Shegog,

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if you tell the truth,
you don't have to have a good memory.

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I don't have any reason to lie to you.

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[Judge Judy]
What was the damage to your house?

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I had two TVs broken,

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um, a PlayStation 4,

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I've had a printer, a HP printer broken.

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[Judge Judy]
Oh, oh, the only thing that I saw

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was him tagging your house

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and breaking the window.

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In the first video, you can actually
see him kick the door, and then...

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That's okay. I didn't see him coming out

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with anything, breaking anything.

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- I have...
- [Judge Judy] I didn't see him...

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...pictures of all the damage
that was done.

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I believe that there was damage.

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I just have to connect him to it.

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And it wasn't me.

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[Regina] I have police reports.

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I don't believe you.

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[Quincey] I don't have no reason...

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But I, I don't believe you,
but that doesn't mean she can prove it.

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I have police reports.

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- [Judge Judy] I'd like to take...
- You don't believe me the whole time.

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[Judge Judy]
...a look at the police report.

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Like I'm sitting here,
I ain't lying to you for some reason.

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[Judge Judy] I'm...

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I ain't gotta lie to you, ma'am.

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You lied to me when you say
you leave her with the keys.

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Okay. You're the judge.

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[Judge Judy] I am.

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It's a very detailed narrative
by the Minneapolis Police Department,

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what was on the footage.

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[announcer] And later today.

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She's gotta get your permission
to sell it and give you half the proceeds.

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She didn't wanna live
in the mobile home to begin with.

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But if something happens to her,
it belongs to you.

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[theme music playing]

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[announcer] Defendant Regina Monegan
is countersuing Quincey Shegog,

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claiming he burglarized
and vandalized her property.

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Quincey says he was not in the state
at the time of the incidents.

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[Judge Judy]
Now, the police outlined what happened.

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It clearly shows the plaintiff,

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who they described to a T,

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and who appears in the footage

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going in the house
and coming out of the house.

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Now, you moved out
of that apartment complex?

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Yes.

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[Judge Judy] So any damage
that was done was done but you moved?

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- I'm not gonna ask you...
- I was forced to move.

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Well, there were a lot of things that
were going on there that were not right.

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And he damaged some of your property.

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Yes.

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- And you drove his car, right?
- Yes.

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And you weren't supposed to drive his car.

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Yes.

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[Judge Judy]
Because you have no driver's license.

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Yes.

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[Judge Judy]
So, you're asking me for some help, right?

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- Yup.
- [Judge Judy] Yup.

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And there isn't a question in my mind
that you vandalized her house.

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So, you want me to help you?
Courts don't do that...

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Why would you think I...

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why would you think
that was me that did that?

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[Judge Judy] Oh, because I saw pictures.

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That's...

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And I don't have to have proof
by beyond a reasonable doubt

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that you damaged her house, sir.

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I have to have more evidence
than not that you vandalized her house

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and damaged her property.

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And based upon
what I've heard from both of you,

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there's more evidence than not
that I believe that you did it.

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If I were in a jury,
and it was a criminal case,

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and I had to prove
by beyond a reasonable doubt

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that it was you,
I don't know if I could do that.

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Fortunately, for me,
my quantum of proof here,

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in small claims courts is just
more proof than not that you did it.

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So, I don't help you, likewise, you.

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You had absolutely no right
to get behind the wheel of a car,

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and your description of the events

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of the 26th of June,

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how this accident happened
and what you were doing,

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driving around the block,
is all too vague for me.

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So, it was the wrong thing for him to do

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and it was equally the wrong thing
for you to do.

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And courts don't have time
to help wrongdoers.

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And I assume you haven't had anything
to do with him for a while?

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- No.
- [Judge Judy] Great.

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Goodbye and good luck.

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Keep it that way. We're done here.

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[Kevin] Court is adjourned.

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A situation happened
where I was in an accident

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and he couldn't understand that.

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There was not a me and him for a while,
so this is it.

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So after reading
the complaint and the answer,

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I'd say that was a pretty even wash

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because what he was claiming
the value of his car was

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and what she was claiming
the damages that he caused.

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The car was worth between...

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Between 3,000 and 5,000 for...

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- [Judge Judy] So...
- ...a private party sale.

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- Right.
- [Sarah] So, I think you both...

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[Judge Judy] And she was...

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...do the wrong thing
and you can't be enriched for that.

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Both did the wrong thing. (chuckles)

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Uh-hmm.

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I didn't believe him at all,

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and I think that maybe
she was a little tipsy

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when she was driving and she shouldn't
have been driving anyway.

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Driving without a license
is a serious offense.

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Yeah. And evidently, she's done it before.

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- [Sarah] Yeah.
- She gets tickets

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for driving without a license, please.

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Case number 1156, Ivie Sr. versus Cohens.

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All parties, please step forward.

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[announcer] Courtney Ivie, Sr.

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is suing his ex-fiancee, Denise Cohens,

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for her half of mortgage payments
and the value of his property.

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Mr. Ivie, how long have you
and Ms. Cohens been together?

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Probably the last eight years.

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[Judge Judy] Were you ever married?

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No, ma'am.

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[Judge Judy] Not to her, to anybody.

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[Courtney] Yes. I was married
to my daughter's mother.

254
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[Judge Judy] For how long?

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[Courtney] Sixteen years.

256
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In what year did you
and Ms. Cohens start to live together?

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Probably, about eight years ago, um...

258
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2012.

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[Courtney] 2012.

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[Judge Judy]
Women know that sort of thing.

261
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Do you remember when in 2012
you started to live together?

262
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He retired, so that was in...

263
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July when he moved from Minnesota

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and came to live with me in Michigan.

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Had you known each other before?

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Since I was eight.

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[Judge Judy]
So you retired in July of 2012?

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Yes, ma'am.

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[Judge Judy] And you sort of
kept in touch with each other

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and decided to live together?

271
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Now, you moved in with her?

272
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Yes.

273
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[Judge Judy] Was it her apartment?

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Yeah. Her father had left her a duplex.

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- [Judge Judy] So it was her home?
- [Courtney] Yes.

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[Judge Judy]
When you moved in with Ms. Cohens,

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did you help with mortgage?

278
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She didn't have a mortgage,
so I went to work

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and I started paying
all the utilities at her house.

280
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Okay. So, you lived together as a couple,

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starting in 2012, you got a job,
paid your own expenses.

282
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Yes, ma'am.

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As if you were married, but not quite?

284
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Yes, ma'am.

285
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[Judge Judy] Now, at some point,
the two of you, together,

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as a couple, left the townhouse.

287
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In what year did you leave the townhouse?

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'12.

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- 2013.
- 2013.

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Thank you, again.

291
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Did you sell the townhouse?

292
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[Denise] No, ma'am.

293
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I gave it to my daughter
since my father gave it to me.

294
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[Judge Judy] Father gave it to you,
you gave it to your daughter,

295
00:12:05,367 --> 00:12:07,033
and moved back to Minnesota?

296
00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:08,433
I never lived in Minnesota.

297
00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:09,834
[Judge Judy]
You moved with him to Minnesota?

298
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Yes. He came to Minnesota first

299
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to get the apartment
and everything set up.

300
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I stayed in Detroit to pack up
my home for three months.

301
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[Judge Judy]
You took an apartment in Minnesota?

302
00:12:19,367 --> 00:12:20,266
Yes, ma'am.

303
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How large an apartment?

304
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One bedroom.

305
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[Judge Judy] And that was in 2013?

306
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Yes, ma'am.

307
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You lived in that one-bedroom apartment.

308
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Was that lease
in both of your names, or just...

309
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[Courtney] Yes, ma'am.

310
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[Judge Judy] Both.

311
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From 2013, you lived in this
one-bedroom apartment, until when?

312
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[Courtney] Until two years ago.

313
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[Judge Judy] When did you leave
that one-bedroom apartment?

314
00:12:38,467 --> 00:12:43,467
It was January the 16th, 2019.

315
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[Judge Judy]
And January 16th, 2019, where did you go?

316
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I was looking for a mobile home
to retire in and we bought a mobile home.

317
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[Judge Judy] And then, at some point,
the relationship ended.

318
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And this is what your lawsuit is about.

319
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You say you want her
to return money that you spent

320
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towards the mortgage on a mobile home?

321
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Eighteen months.

322
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Do you still have the mobile home?

323
00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:05,934
Yes, I do, ma'am.

324
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[Judge Judy] Is it in both of your names?

325
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Yes, it is.

326
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It, it is until...

327
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Right now, it's in both your names?

328
00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,066
Yes, 'cause I refinanced it, so...

329
00:13:15,133 --> 00:13:16,100
[Judge Judy] Doesn't make any difference.

330
00:13:16,166 --> 00:13:17,233
It's in both your names?

331
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Yes.

332
00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,533
[Judge Judy] And if you wanna sell it
at any point, you have to get half.

333
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Otherwise, you don't sign your name.
(chuckles)

334
00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:28,133
Now, you refinanced it,
but in order to refinance it,

335
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because that's interesting, Ms. Cohens,

336
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didn't they need his signature
to refinance it?

337
00:13:32,734 --> 00:13:35,367
I'm the borrower, he's the co-signer.

338
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[Judge Judy] Just a second.

339
00:13:36,367 --> 00:13:39,033
When did you refinance it, in what year?

340
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[Denise] Just four months ago,

341
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when he claimed he was moving out,
the relationship...

342
00:13:42,433 --> 00:13:43,500
- [Judge Judy] Just a sec...
- ...was over.

343
00:13:43,567 --> 00:13:46,367
[Judge Judy]
Just a...so, four months ago, he left?

344
00:13:46,433 --> 00:13:47,734
No, he was still in the household.

345
00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:48,633
[Judge Judy] Okay.

346
00:13:48,700 --> 00:13:49,834
The relationship was over?

347
00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:50,900
Yes.

348
00:13:50,967 --> 00:13:52,133
He moved into the guest room.

349
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[Judge Judy] Fine.

350
00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:53,934
Uh-hmm.

351
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[Judge Judy] I'm a bank.

352
00:13:54,934 --> 00:13:59,767
You have a mobile home that's owned
by two people, so two people's names.

353
00:13:59,834 --> 00:14:02,600
You wanna take more money
out of that mobile home,

354
00:14:02,667 --> 00:14:04,934
more cash, so you refinance it.

355
00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,567
You need his signature on that.

356
00:14:07,633 --> 00:14:10,066
Just a second,
that's either a yes or a no.

357
00:14:10,133 --> 00:14:11,800
No, I didn't wanna take cash out.

358
00:14:11,867 --> 00:14:13,567
[Judge Judy]
You just wanted to refinance it?

359
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To lower my mortgage payment
since he was moving out.

360
00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:17,333
Okay.

361
00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:18,667
But he had to sign that.

362
00:14:18,734 --> 00:14:19,567
[Denise] No.

363
00:14:19,633 --> 00:14:21,166
He didn't have to sign any papers?

364
00:14:21,233 --> 00:14:23,533
- [Denise] No.
- For you to refinance the mortgage?

365
00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:24,433
No.

366
00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:25,333
[Judge Judy] Okay.

367
00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,500
So Mr. Ivie, the two of you lived
together as a married couple

368
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but you weren't married.

369
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You lived together for a long time.

370
00:14:31,333 --> 00:14:33,900
And there are no courts
for almost marrieds.

371
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If you are married,

372
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you live in probably a state

373
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that is a community property state

374
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or a state that says we're gonna split
everything down the middle.

375
00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:44,633
But you're not married.

376
00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:49,700
So, you lived in a place
and you paid a mortgage on the place.

377
00:14:49,767 --> 00:14:51,033
I understand what you wrote.

378
00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:53,333
She stopped paying the mortgage,
so you had to pay the mortgage...

379
00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:54,467
[Courtney] Excuse me, Your Honor,

380
00:14:54,533 --> 00:14:57,467
she never paid the mortgage for 18 months,
I did.

381
00:14:57,533 --> 00:15:00,433
Plus, you know, I tried to split
everything down the middle.

382
00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:01,333
- That's a lie.
- [Judge Judy] Uh, yeah. Just a sec.

383
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And she refuses anything.

384
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[Denise] That's a lie.

385
00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:04,367
[Judge Judy] Listen, listen to me, sir.

386
00:15:04,433 --> 00:15:09,066
It doesn't make any difference,
to me or to any court.

387
00:15:09,133 --> 00:15:11,934
You two people lived together,
as a married couple,

388
00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,100
but you weren't married.

389
00:15:13,166 --> 00:15:15,033
If you chose to pay the mortgage,
good for you...

390
00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:15,934
But we had an agreement.

391
00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,734
Now, courts don't care

392
00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,166
when you share a bed
what your agreement was.

393
00:15:21,266 --> 00:15:22,533
We don't care.

394
00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:23,467
I don't care.

395
00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,467
We decided that we'll
get a boat, so we can go fishing.

396
00:15:30,533 --> 00:15:31,367
I allowed...

397
00:15:31,433 --> 00:15:32,467
Put your hand down.

398
00:15:32,533 --> 00:15:36,567
She refuses to give anything back
and refuses to give me any compensation.

399
00:15:36,633 --> 00:15:38,934
She just wanna take everything and run.

400
00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:39,934
Put your hand down.

401
00:15:45,967 --> 00:15:48,967
[theme music playing]

402
00:15:52,233 --> 00:15:57,200
[announcer] Courtney Ivie, Sr.
claims his ex-fiancee, Denise Cohens,

403
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owes for her half of mortgage payments
and the value of his property.

404
00:16:01,367 --> 00:16:02,834
Denise is countersuing,

405
00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:06,066
claiming Courtney
defamed her on social media.

406
00:16:06,133 --> 00:16:09,500
Now, you lived together,
you now moved out.

407
00:16:09,567 --> 00:16:11,834
And you moved out
and bought something of your own?

408
00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:12,734
Yes, ma'am.

409
00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:13,667
[Judge Judy] What did you buy?

410
00:16:13,734 --> 00:16:14,700
I bought a home.

411
00:16:14,767 --> 00:16:16,333
[Judge Judy] Great. Who do you live with?

412
00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:17,633
Me.

413
00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:18,567
Even better.

414
00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:25,000
And if she sells this mobile home,
your name is still on the title?

415
00:16:25,066 --> 00:16:25,934
Yes, it is.

416
00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,633
[Judge Judy]
She's gotta get your permission

417
00:16:27,700 --> 00:16:30,433
to sell it and give you half the proceeds.

418
00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:31,367
- Well, I asked her for...
- [Denise] Ma'am...

419
00:16:31,433 --> 00:16:32,767
Just a second.

420
00:16:32,834 --> 00:16:34,433
I can't force her to do that.

421
00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:36,867
She didn't wanna live
in the mobile home to begin with.

422
00:16:36,934 --> 00:16:38,433
It was you who wanted
to live in the mobile home.

423
00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:39,333
Yes, ma'am.

424
00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,100
[Judge Judy]
That's what I gathered from the papers.

425
00:16:41,165 --> 00:16:42,734
Did you get used to the mobile home?

426
00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:44,667
The one that I'm in? I picked out.

427
00:16:44,734 --> 00:16:46,066
[Judge Judy]
Okay. So you got used to living...

428
00:16:46,133 --> 00:16:46,967
- Yes.
- [Judge Judy] ...in a mobile home.

429
00:16:47,033 --> 00:16:48,400
- Love it.
- [Judge Judy] Now you love it.

430
00:16:48,467 --> 00:16:50,066
So, you're not gonna sell it anytime soon?

431
00:16:50,133 --> 00:16:51,266
No, ma'am.

432
00:16:51,333 --> 00:16:52,200
[Judge Judy] Okay.

433
00:16:52,333 --> 00:16:54,300
But if something happens to her,
it belongs to you.

434
00:16:57,133 --> 00:16:58,133
Same difference.

435
00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:03,233
What I'm most interested in
is the return of property

436
00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:07,200
because what you say
is that she has certain property

437
00:17:07,266 --> 00:17:08,300
that belongs to you,

438
00:17:08,367 --> 00:17:12,133
and if you own property
that she refuses to give you,

439
00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:13,599
that's what I wanna hear about.

440
00:17:13,666 --> 00:17:14,500
[Courtney] Okay.

441
00:17:14,567 --> 00:17:17,500
I bought a, a lawnmower,
a snow blower when we first moved

442
00:17:17,567 --> 00:17:20,300
into the mobile trailer,
on her Home Depot card,

443
00:17:20,367 --> 00:17:22,532
and I paid off, cash,
so they actually belong to me.

444
00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:23,567
That's a lie.

445
00:17:23,633 --> 00:17:24,834
Don't speak.

446
00:17:24,900 --> 00:17:26,733
- [Courtney] Now, I also...
- [Judge Judy] When...just a second.

447
00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,467
When did you buy the lawnmower
on her Home Depot card?

448
00:17:29,533 --> 00:17:30,500
Last year.

449
00:17:30,567 --> 00:17:32,200
And when did you buy the snow blower?

450
00:17:32,266 --> 00:17:33,133
Last year before winter hit.

451
00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:34,033
[Judge Judy] Okay.

452
00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:36,567
I also don't wanna know about that.

453
00:17:36,633 --> 00:17:38,633
That's when you were living together
as a couple,

454
00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:42,033
you put it on her Home Depot card,
but you paid it off.

455
00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:43,200
Who cares?

456
00:17:43,266 --> 00:17:48,100
I wanna know about your property
that she refuses to give you.

457
00:17:48,166 --> 00:17:49,767
- The snow blower, the lawn...
- [Denise] No.

458
00:17:49,834 --> 00:17:51,567
- The, the furniture...
- [Judge Judy] No. That's...

459
00:17:51,633 --> 00:17:52,900
[Courtney] Half of the furniture.

460
00:17:52,967 --> 00:17:55,867
She paid half, I paid half,
she refuses to give anything back

461
00:17:55,934 --> 00:18:00,800
and refuses to give me any compensation
for anything that I've done,

462
00:18:00,867 --> 00:18:02,967
and she just wanna
take everything and run.

463
00:18:03,033 --> 00:18:03,867
- I don't think that's...
- No. That's a lie.

464
00:18:03,934 --> 00:18:05,867
[Judge Judy] Did you...just a second.

465
00:18:05,934 --> 00:18:08,600
Don't...you're not married.

466
00:18:08,667 --> 00:18:09,500
That's true.

467
00:18:09,567 --> 00:18:11,500
[Judge Judy]
There's no division of property

468
00:18:11,567 --> 00:18:14,166
that courts do for people living together.

469
00:18:14,233 --> 00:18:15,567
If you said to me,

470
00:18:15,633 --> 00:18:18,033
"She has my clothes,

471
00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:22,367
she has my computer, she has my boat."

472
00:18:22,433 --> 00:18:23,500
She has that, too.

473
00:18:23,567 --> 00:18:25,133
- Our boat.
- [Judge Judy] Okay. Just a second.

474
00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:26,500
Different story.

475
00:18:26,567 --> 00:18:29,400
I thought
I recalled something about a boat.

476
00:18:29,467 --> 00:18:31,333
Tell me about this boat.

477
00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,667
We bought a boat, when COVID first hit,

478
00:18:33,734 --> 00:18:36,400
when they said that we had to be
six feet apart and do social distance.

479
00:18:36,467 --> 00:18:39,467
We decided that we'll get a boat
so we can go fishing.

480
00:18:39,533 --> 00:18:40,400
I love to fish...

481
00:18:40,467 --> 00:18:41,300
[Judge Judy] Put your hand down.

482
00:18:41,367 --> 00:18:42,200
I'm sorry.

483
00:18:42,266 --> 00:18:45,333
I love to fish and when she came along,
I don't even know if she knew how to fish.

484
00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,033
[Judge Judy] Just a sec...I don't care.

485
00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:48,834
You bought a boat when COVID struck?

486
00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:49,734
Right.

487
00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,467
[Judge Judy] Do you recall how much it...
put your hand down.

488
00:18:52,533 --> 00:18:53,600
I'm gonna get to you in a sec.

489
00:18:53,667 --> 00:18:55,233
- [Denise] Okay.
- [Courtney] $1,500.

490
00:18:55,300 --> 00:18:57,133
It's a small four-footer.

491
00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,400
Do you recall
whether you paid for that jointly

492
00:19:00,467 --> 00:19:03,166
or whether you paid for that
out of joint funds?

493
00:19:03,233 --> 00:19:06,934
No, I deposited 1,200 into my account,
withdrew a thousand.

494
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,200
She had 700 from somewhere,
we put it together and we bought the boat.

495
00:19:11,266 --> 00:19:14,333
We registered the boat in my name
and my name only.

496
00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,300
Okay.
Do you have a copy of that registration?

497
00:19:16,367 --> 00:19:17,200
[Courtney] No, ma'am.

498
00:19:17,266 --> 00:19:19,467
I didn't have time to go to the state
to get the copy.

499
00:19:19,533 --> 00:19:22,100
Okay. Do you have a copy
of the registration, Ms. Cohens,

500
00:19:22,166 --> 00:19:23,033
of the boat?

501
00:19:23,133 --> 00:19:24,500
- Yes.
- [Judge Judy] I'd like to see it.

502
00:19:25,934 --> 00:19:26,900
- Kevin?
- [Kevin] Yes.

503
00:19:30,033 --> 00:19:31,567
- [Denise] Can I speak, Your Honor?
- No.

504
00:19:31,633 --> 00:19:32,500
Okay.

505
00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:39,100
[Judge Judy] Oh, yeah.

506
00:19:39,166 --> 00:19:40,400
Courtney Eugene Ivie.

507
00:19:40,467 --> 00:19:42,000
- Yes, ma'am.
- [Judge Judy] It's your boat?

508
00:19:42,100 --> 00:19:43,600
- Yes, ma'am.
- Go pick it up.

509
00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:44,567
- Five days.
- [Courtney] Thank you.

510
00:19:44,633 --> 00:19:45,734
- No. Your Honor...
- Thank you very much.

511
00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,834
Five days from today,
he's picking up the boat.

512
00:19:47,900 --> 00:19:50,100
Your Honor, I put the first...

513
00:19:50,166 --> 00:19:51,033
[Judge Judy] I don't care.

514
00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:52,633
- ...$700 on the boat.
- [Judge Judy] Listen.

515
00:19:52,700 --> 00:19:54,133
- He didn't know the guy.
- [Judge Judy] Listen.

516
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,834
- I found the boat.
- Listen to me, carefully.

517
00:19:56,900 --> 00:19:58,934
The boat is in his name.

518
00:19:59,000 --> 00:19:59,934
It's his boat.

519
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,900
Now, I'm gonna ask you
a couple of questions.

520
00:20:01,967 --> 00:20:05,033
When he moved out of the mobile home...

521
00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:05,934
Uh-hmm.

522
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,433
[Judge Judy]
...did he take any furniture with him?

523
00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:08,333
[Denise] No, ma'am.

524
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:09,567
[Judge Judy]
Did he take the lawnmower with him?

525
00:20:09,633 --> 00:20:10,567
No, ma'am.

526
00:20:10,633 --> 00:20:12,400
[Judge Judy]
Did he take the snow blower with him?

527
00:20:12,467 --> 00:20:13,300
No, ma'am.

528
00:20:13,367 --> 00:20:15,066
Did he take anything else with him?

529
00:20:15,133 --> 00:20:16,100
No, ma'am.

530
00:20:16,166 --> 00:20:18,967
He's picking up the boat in five days.

531
00:20:19,033 --> 00:20:20,633
- Okay, Your Honor.
- [Judge Judy] Perfect.

532
00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:22,000
Yes. It is.

533
00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:24,300
- I tried to give it to him at first...
- [Judge Judy] Got it?

534
00:20:24,367 --> 00:20:25,333
Just a second.

535
00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:26,734
That doesn't require an answer from you.

536
00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:28,266
- [Denise] Oh.
- That's my judgment.

537
00:20:28,333 --> 00:20:29,200
Okay.

538
00:20:29,266 --> 00:20:30,333
[Judge Judy] Picking up the boat.

539
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:31,767
- Yes, ma'am.
- [Judge Judy] Five days.

540
00:20:31,834 --> 00:20:33,400
- Yes, ma'am.
- [Judge Judy] We'll give you an order.

541
00:20:33,467 --> 00:20:36,233
What else is there that's your property?

542
00:20:36,300 --> 00:20:39,133
The only thing else that would be there
that's considered

543
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,867
just my personal property would be my, um,

544
00:20:42,934 --> 00:20:45,767
tighter machine for my back,
that's about it.

545
00:20:45,834 --> 00:20:46,734
[Judge Judy] Did she ever use it?

546
00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:47,633
No, ma'am.

547
00:20:47,700 --> 00:20:48,967
[Judge Judy] Okay.
You know what he's talking about?

548
00:20:49,033 --> 00:20:49,867
Yes.

549
00:20:49,934 --> 00:20:52,500
[Judge Judy] You're gonna pick that up
when you go and pick up the boat.

550
00:20:52,567 --> 00:20:53,400
Yes, ma'am.

551
00:20:53,467 --> 00:20:56,100
And we're going to make certain
that the boat is in good shape

552
00:20:56,166 --> 00:20:58,266
because there are certain funds
that we're going to hold

553
00:20:58,333 --> 00:20:59,633
until he gets the boat, do you understand?

554
00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:02,934
Oh, he got the key it to it,
so I can't...I can't even get into the...

555
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:03,834
[Judge Judy] Perfect.

556
00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:06,400
Now, you have a counterclaim
and your counterclaim

557
00:21:06,467 --> 00:21:09,333
is a relatively a simple one
and easily dismissed.

558
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:10,500
It's for defamation.

559
00:21:10,567 --> 00:21:14,266
And you say he put on the internet
that I stole his home.

560
00:21:14,333 --> 00:21:15,233
- Yes.
- [Judge Judy] Am I right?

561
00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:17,033
- Yes.
- [Judge Judy] In his view, you did.

562
00:21:17,100 --> 00:21:20,533
And there would be 50% of the community
that would believe

563
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,533
that you bought this home together,

564
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,000
it's in both your names, he left,
you still have it,

565
00:21:26,066 --> 00:21:28,967
you refinanced it, he put money into it,

566
00:21:29,033 --> 00:21:31,367
as did you,
and he doesn't have it anymore.

567
00:21:31,433 --> 00:21:33,700
So, in his mind,
there's a reasonable interpretation

568
00:21:33,767 --> 00:21:36,633
of what you did, is she stole my home.

569
00:21:36,700 --> 00:21:38,233
So, your case is dismissed.

570
00:21:38,300 --> 00:21:39,166
Your counterclaim.

571
00:21:39,233 --> 00:21:41,533
He's gonna pick up his boat
within five days from today

572
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,000
along with his back machine.

573
00:21:43,066 --> 00:21:44,266
We're done.

574
00:21:44,333 --> 00:21:45,200
Thank you very much.

575
00:21:45,266 --> 00:21:46,633
Goodbye. Good luck.

576
00:21:46,834 --> 00:21:47,834
Have a happy life.

577
00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:48,934
Enjoy your new home.

578
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:49,834
- Bye.
- Thank you, Your Honor.

579
00:21:49,900 --> 00:21:51,000
- [Kevin] The court is adjourned.
- Thank you.

580
00:21:52,433 --> 00:21:54,000
We just lost interest with each other.

581
00:21:54,066 --> 00:21:55,200
I got tired of her and left.

582
00:21:55,266 --> 00:21:57,800
Him not giving me attention,
I'm not giving him attention,

583
00:21:57,867 --> 00:21:59,900
it was...it was a lot of little things.

584
00:21:59,967 --> 00:22:01,600
She's just conniving and she's...

585
00:22:01,667 --> 00:22:03,900
The same thing that should
have happened four months ago

586
00:22:03,967 --> 00:22:06,767
when I offered to give him
the boat and he go head on...

587
00:22:06,834 --> 00:22:09,066
Threatening,
and loud-mouthed, and everything else,

588
00:22:09,133 --> 00:22:10,533
and I got tired of it and left.

589
00:22:12,367 --> 00:22:14,033
- They were lovely people.
- [Sarah] Uh-hmm.

590
00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:16,133
And, you know, Sarah, it looked to me like

591
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,633
they had a decade together that was nice.

592
00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:23,000
But those types of relationships
are so hard to hear in court

593
00:22:23,066 --> 00:22:26,166
because as you said, time and time again,
when you're not married,

594
00:22:26,233 --> 00:22:30,467
there's no real legal remedy
that we can use to help them.

595
00:22:30,533 --> 00:22:31,367
Yeah.

596
00:22:31,433 --> 00:22:34,600
And people who live together really have
to understand that when you co-mingle...

597
00:22:34,667 --> 00:22:36,000
- Uh-hmm.
- [Judge Judy] ...and you're not married,

598
00:22:36,066 --> 00:22:39,834
and things become that intertwined,
as their life...

599
00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:41,266
- Uh-hmm.
- ...financially was intertwined,

600
00:22:41,333 --> 00:22:44,166
you can't say,
"Well, I paid for half the furniture

601
00:22:44,233 --> 00:22:45,533
that we've used for a decade."

602
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:46,433
Uh-hmm.

603
00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:49,233
- So it comes down to big items.
- Uh-hmm.

604
00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:50,266
- Car.
- Yeah.

605
00:22:50,333 --> 00:22:52,033
[Judge Judy] Boat, in whose name is it.

606
00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:54,834
Now, he doesn't want the mobile home
because he's bought his own.

607
00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:55,734
Uh-hmm.

608
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,066
And when you read the complaint
and the answer,

609
00:22:58,133 --> 00:23:01,700
she was a reluctant person
when it came to moving into a mobile home.

610
00:23:01,767 --> 00:23:03,500
She's now come to like it,

611
00:23:03,567 --> 00:23:06,066
and I'm glad he's getting his boat back

612
00:23:06,133 --> 00:23:09,133
because he feels as if he got something.

613
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,066
- Uh-hmm.
- [Judge Judy] You know...

614
00:23:10,133 --> 00:23:11,533
Makes it feels more equitable.

615
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,700
- It makes it feel more equitable.
- Uh-hmm.

616
00:23:13,767 --> 00:23:15,000
Sometimes that's all we can do...

617
00:23:15,066 --> 00:23:16,033
- [Judge Judy] Sometime...
- ...when we're constrained.

618
00:23:16,100 --> 00:23:17,533
Right. Sometimes that's all you can do.

619
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:18,467
[Sarah] Yeah.

620
00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:21,300
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