(audience applauding)
- It's time for Kelly's court.
(upbeat music)
(crowd cheering)
- Leaping lizards, it's the case
of the unfinished lizard motel.
Lisa claims her daughter Alex refuses to throw out
her still-to-be-finished lizard terrarium
that is taking up space in the garage.
She is suing to have it destroyed.
Alex rents the home from her parents.
She says her mother has no right
to tell her what to do with her lizard loft
and she is countersuing for harassment.
Kelly's Court is now in session, people.
(audience cheering)
- Lisa, we'll start with you, what's the problem?
- Well esteemed judges, approximately two years ago,
my husband and I and Alex agreed
to enter into an arrangement to purchase
this home here in Los Angeles.
Upon the verbal agreement to have Alex move into this house,
we spoke with her about getting rid
of some of the unfinished projects
that she had accumulated over her years
of living here in Los Angeles.
I believe that this very large lizard house
is become a hazard into the garage,
it is crowding space and will continue
to be so once it moves into the property.
In addition to that, it's not even near finished.
And if it would please the court,
I have evidence to that fact.
- [Lauren] It would please the court.
- It would very much please the Court, you're right.
- Not only to the size of the lizard house,
but photographs of it's lack of being completed
and the stage at which it is at.
- There you go, Chris.
- Chris, please.
(upbeat music)
- [Group] Alright.
- Okay, I was like wow. - I think that's up.
That's the top, yeah.
(Kelly laughs)
- [Jerry] And that's--
(laughs)
Are these bunk beds or what is it?
- [Lauren] Wait, what?
(crowd laughs)
- Alex, you say this is mother-daughter harassment.
Is this true?
- Absolutely, I mean, you heard this, it's my property.
It's as well as it is hers.
It's my project that I have to finish
and I keep getting text messages, I keep getting calls.
I have evidence here of emails
being sent, minutes apart actually,
asking me to get rid of the lizard house.
So I just don't feel like this is appropriate behavior.
- Do you all live in the same house?
- No, they live in Wisconsin
and I live here in Los Angeles.
- So you own the house.
And you rented from her?
- I rent-to-own, actually.
So they put in 80%.
I put in the remaining 20%.
And now I send them rent every month to own the home.
So you keep talking about like this agreement,
this renter's agreement, but I never signed anything.
This is also my house.
So nothing was--
- As I said it is a verbal agreement.
It was not a signed, no, we did not,
we didn't send you a contract.
It was never returned signed.
So our concern is that this is going
to become a habit, there are additional projects
that remain on the property that have been left unfinished
for quite some time also.
- When you say project, what do you mean?
Are you like, do you deal with animals, or?
- No, this is Goodora, she's my bearded dragon and--
- The queen of dragons.
- Yes, this is Queen Goodora, that's correct.
So no, this is just my-- - That's actually living.
- This is alive.
(crowd laughs)
And I would like to keep it that way.
Yes.
I would like to keep it that way
and the home that she has now
in my current dwelling situation
just isn't big enough for what it is that she needs.
- Lauren, do you have a question?
- I do have a question.
We keep hearing it referred to as the lizard house
but I've also heard it referred to as the lizard loft.
So I'm wondering if you could explain to me
what exactly that means.
- Yes, and that actually might
be a good counterpoint to what you just said.
I bought a dresser, as you can see in the photos,
so there's actually three shelves
to the dresser with glass in front.
And we're calling it the loft because it's multi storied.
So the top would be her hot area
where she goes to warm up and to bask
and the bottom area would be her place where she goes down,
which will be cooler and she takes a nap there.
- That's-- - But do you really need that
when you let her out to run around all day?
- Yes. - She's kind of like
a little dog. - I don't let her run around
all day, you don't live with me
and you don't know how it is that I treat my dragon.
- That is the greatest statement I've heard in a long time.
(crowd laughs)
- I never thought I would say something like that
out loud. - It was awesome.
I enjoyed it, yeah, yeah. (crowd laughs)
- Well let's confer, we need to decide
whether the lizard loft stays or goes, people.
(upbeat music)
Exactly, okay.
(gavels bang)
(crowd laughs)
- A fascinating case. (crowd laughs)
Our opinion is it probably does not
belong in court.
You both own the property.
You're mother and daughter,
she lives in the property.
You know, there must be a million ways to settle this issue.
It is your option.
If you wanna buy her out, you can, but either way,
that's your decision to make and in the meantime,
the case is dismissed.
(gavel bangs)
- All right. (crowd claps)
Court is adjourned.