read your complaint.
About two years ago, you and the
defendant moved in together and
you bought a television set.
And you split the cost of the
television set that you bought
two years ago.
How much did you put in?
>> $300.
>> Judge Judy: And you put in
$300?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: And then you
split up.
Now it's two years later.
She kept the TV and you want
your $300.
>> Yes, ma'am.
[ Laughter ]
That was the terms that we
agreed to when we split up and
split all our stuff.
>> Judge Judy: You mean she
agreed to give you the $300?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Is that correct?
>> Not necessarily.
>> Judge Judy: Well, what does
that mean, "Not necessarily"?
Don't be stupid.
Either you agreed to give him
$300 or you didn't agree to give
him the $300.
>> Well, he said that he didn't
necessarily need the $300 at the
time when we were first --
>> Judge Judy: Could you look at
me?
Don't look at the floor.
>> Yes, ma'am.
When we were first going through
the whole breakup situation, he
said that it wasn't necessary to
give him $300, and I offered,
and then I changed my mind.
>> Judge Judy: No. No, no, no.
I want you to tell me exactly
how it happened.
And don't phumpher.
>> What does that mean?
>> Judge Judy: Don't waff your
answer.
>> I'm not waffing my answer.
>> Judge Judy: Now, he says that
you agreed when you were
splitting up the property that
you would keep the TV and you
would give him $300, and your
response to me was, "Not
necessarily."
So now I want you to tell me
exactly what happened.
>> I offered to give him $300.
>> Judge Judy: No, tell me what
you said to him.
>> What I said to him?
>> Judge Judy: He said, "Do you
want the TV or do you want me to
take the TV?
If you take the TV, you give me
$300."
>> [ Sighs ]
>> Judge Judy: I want to know
what was said, not "I offered."
>> I'm sorry.
I'm trying to process so I word
this correctly now.
>> Judge Judy: Just word me the
way it happened.
>> I'm telling you the way it
happened.
I...
He didn't...
I'm sorry. One moment.
>> I can tell you if you want,
ma'am.
>> I offered.
I didn't agree to anything.
And he accepted my offer to give
him back his money after he said
"It's not necessary for you to
give me the $300" when I was
taking the TV.
>> Judge Judy: What property did
you keep that you had acquired
together?
>> That we acquired together?
The only thing that he had
helped pay for that I kept was
the TV.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
And what did you take?
>> I took nothing that we
acquired together.
>> Judge Judy: Is that correct?
>> Yes, but we only paid for the
TV together.
>> Judge Judy: Well, where is
the TV now?
>> The TV is at my apartment.
>> Judge Judy: At your
apartment.
Well, somebody's got to get the
TV and somebody has to pay their
share.
And I don't know if it's $300,
but if you agreed to give him
$300, televisions depreciate.
They don't stay the same.
It's not worth the same now if
she went -- You see, if neither
one of you wanted the TV,
Mr. Glavin...
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Judge Judy: If neither one of
you wanted the TV, what the
court would do is say you find
somebody to buy it and split
50/50 the proceeds.
That sounds fair, doesn't it?
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Judge Judy: Because nobody's
gonna pay $600 for a television
set that you bought two years
ago and used for two years.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
So, do you want the TV?
>> Yes, I do.
>> Judge Judy: Did you offer to
give him the $300 and did he
accept that offer?
>> He didn't originally, and
then he did.
>> I did accept the offer.
>> Originally?
>> Originally, I accepted the
offer.
[ Clears throat ]
Originally, she said -- She was
the one that made the original
offer of $300.
I told her I don't necessarily
need the money, but I will
accept the offer.
And that was the final terms.
>> Judge Judy: Okay. Fine.
Now you want to go into this
telephone?
>> Yes, ma'am.
When we were still living
together at my parents' house
before she had moved out, she
had taken my phone.
>> Judge Judy: On what date?
>> On what day?
>> Judge Judy: What date?
>> I don't know the exact date.
Very late October.
>> Judge Judy: Did you
subsequently live together after
that?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
So, late October, she left. And?
>> Late October.
And she saw a text from one of
my friends from Orlando, and it
made her very mad.
She took the phone and she
pressed it against a side of the
dresser for leverage and snapped
it in half.
And after that, I paid the
insurance cost, which was $150.
>> Judge Judy: Tell me your
version of the phone. We did lir
I broke the phone because we
were still together.
We were living at his parents'
house at the time because we
were in between leases.
We were waiting for our next
lease to start after our last
lease had ended.
>> This was after our lease had
ended.
>> Judge Judy: Shh! Shh!
Shh! Shh!
>> And I was sitting next to him
on the bed one night -- or it
was about the middle of the
day -- and he was talking to
someone, and I asked who he was
talking to, and I saw it was
some girl from Orlando, and I
asked to see the messages, and
he said no.
So I took the phone, and it was
a message -- It was a
conversation in regards to him
cheating on me, and it made me
very angry because he...
>> Judge Judy: So you broke the
phone.
>> Yes. I mean --
>> Judge Judy: Okay. Good.
$450 -- $300 was an agreed-upon
arrangement between the two of
you for the TV, which I'm not
gonna get involved with since
you agreed to it, and $150 for
the insurance for the phone.
We're