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00:00Did your mother take out credit cards without asking you?
00:03Several of them.
00:04Moving in with mom put the bite on her son.
00:07How much was your dental bill that you charged to him?
00:10It was like 3,000.
00:11Children don't pay for their mother's teeth.
00:13And the bank had to eat the rest.
00:15You still living in the house?
00:17The house ended up burning.
00:18Oh, that's convenient.
00:19We were under foreclosure, though.
00:20Also convenient.
00:22This is some family.
00:24This is Judge Judy.
00:27Jordan, this is your fiancee.
00:30And this is your mother.
00:32And there was a time when you and your fiancee
00:35were living with your mother.
00:36Give me the time frame that you and your fiancee
00:39were living with your mom.
00:40From this date, it was about maybe two years ago.
00:43For how long did you live with her?
00:45About a year and a half.
00:46Were you both working at the time?
00:48I had some part-time jobs here and there.
00:50I was a martial arts instructor, an assistant teacher,
00:54and Bobby is a full-time student.
00:56Are you still a full-time student?
00:57I am.
00:58I'm taking 14 units at a nursing program.
01:00How do you support yourself?
01:02Through financial aid, mostly.
01:03Jordan, during the time you were living with your mother,
01:05the electricity was shut off.
01:07And at that time, according to you,
01:09you agreed to put the electricity in your name
01:11because your mother couldn't get it turned back on
01:13in her name.
01:14I was not involved in any of the agreements at all.
01:17Who was?
01:18Bobby and my mother.
01:19It was done without my knowledge.
01:21So tell me about the conversation, Mr. McKay,
01:23that you had with Jordan's mother.
01:25Deena had told us that the electric
01:28was gonna be turned off
01:29and told us what day it was gonna be turned off.
01:31And Deena and I sat down and talked
01:33about opening it in my name
01:36and her making all the payments
01:38because I was already paying her
01:39about $500 a month for rent.
01:41Obviously, being a full-time student
01:43and having limited income from the financial aid,
01:45I wasn't able to pay it.
01:47So she was going to be taking over
01:49and making all those payments.
01:50We sat down and agreed that I would go ahead
01:53and open it up,
01:54and it would set up auto payment
01:56through the electric company,
01:58and it would come out of her father's account
02:00and be paid every month.
02:01Out of her father's account?
02:03Yes.
02:03Why out of her father's account?
02:05She does all the bills out of her father's account.
02:07Her father is the one that owned the house
02:09that we were living in,
02:10and I paid rent to Deena.
02:12Was he living there as well?
02:14Yes, ma'am.
02:14Anybody else other than the defendant,
02:16her father, and the two of you?
02:18At the time, it was just my fiance, myself,
02:22Deena, her daughter, and her father.
02:24Her daughter?
02:25Yes.
02:26And her brother and his girlfriend.
02:30When you were there?
02:30They moved in later.
02:32But they were there during that period
02:33when you were there?
02:34Yes.
02:35Were they paying you rent?
02:37Yes, they were paying rent.
02:38Not they, the other people who were living there.
02:41No, they were not.
02:42In any event, this is what this case is about.
02:44The electricity bill was up in the thousands
02:47and was not paid.
02:50Why not?
02:50When I moved in with my father,
02:53my sister was living there with her husband.
02:54When I moved in, they had accumulated a $6,000.
02:58That they weren't paying?
02:59Exactly.
03:00So then when I came into the picture,
03:02it was an enormous amount.
03:04PG&E turned it off because so called.
03:07Well, why didn't you put it in your name?
03:09It was under my name.
03:10Why?
03:11If you weren't living there?
03:12Because I was trying to help my mom establish the credit.
03:15All right.
03:16So people use electricity in your family
03:18and they don't pay the bills.
03:20That's what it's about.
03:21And you keep going from person to person to person,
03:24opening up new accounts.
03:25So the electric company has this $6,000 bill,
03:29this $4,000 bill.
03:31Then you said you weren't living there.
03:32Can we open it in your name because you have credit?
03:37Anyway, how much was the bill?
03:40It came up to $3,253.10.
03:44When were you notified of that?
03:45We had already moved out because of some tension
03:48and drama between her brother and myself.
03:52But we had told them that if they continued to make payments
03:54on the PG&E that we would continue to have it on
03:57in my name there.
03:58And she had the information to pay PG&E.
04:01She had the account information.
04:02She had the email address with the password.
04:05They don't pay electric in our family.
04:07Yes, I understand.
04:08I don't know what else they don't pay,
04:09but they don't pay electric.
04:11May I see the last notice from the electric company, please?
04:15You still living in the house?
04:16No, I don't live in the house.
04:18The house ended up burning.
04:19What?
04:21Oh, that's convenient.
04:24Was it insured?
04:25Yes.
04:26Yes.
04:27Your Honor.
04:28We were under foreclosure, though.
04:29Also convenient.
04:31Well, my father, after my mom passed away.
04:33Convenient.
04:34My mom passed away.
04:35$3,253.10.
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