>> Judge Judy: I'm going
to start with you, Mr. Carter.
This gentleman
is your wife's uncle.
Is that correct?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: How long and you
and your wife been married?
>> Five years.
>> Judge Judy: Don't...
When I ask you a question,
Mrs. Carter, you will respond.
When I ask him a question,
he is to respond.
I don't want you to discuss it
with him,
give him an answer, correct him.
Say nothing.
How many years
have you been married?
>> Five years.
>> Judge Judy: Do you have
children together?
>> No, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy:
Do you have children?
>> Yes.
I do.
>> Judge Judy: How many?
>> Three.
>> Judge Judy: And do you
have children?
>>Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: How many?
>> I had one,
and I had one that got killed.
>> Judge Judy: How many children
do you have now?
>> One.
>> Judge Judy: One.
How old is that child?
>> Twenty-three.
>> Judge Judy:
Doesn't live with you?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: How old
are your children?
>> 10, 13 and 17.
>> Judge Judy: Is there
a question mark
at the end of that?
I really don't know how old
your children are.
>> I had to think, to be honest.
No.
I just had to think
for a second.
>> Judge Judy: And I assume
they do not live with you?
>> No, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: What kind of work
do you do, Mr. Carter?
>> I am a landscaper.
>> Judge Judy: And you?
>> I am mentally disabled.
>> Judge Judy:
Who wanted the car?
>> I did.
>> Judge Judy: Do you have
a driver's license?
>> Yes. I do.
>> Judge Judy:
Do you take medication?
>> Not for...
I have PTSD
because my son got run over
and killed by a train in 2008.
I don't take the...
I take Zoloft for that.
That's it, to keep my mood up.
>> Judge Judy:
So you wanted a car.
According to what you say,
the car that you really wanted
was a Cadillac.
You didn't have money for it.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: So you asked
your uncle for some money?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: How much money
did you ask him for?
>> I...
>> Judge Judy: Look at me.
>> I'm sorry.
>> Judge Judy: How much money
did you ask him for?
>> Eleven hundred.
>> Judge Judy:
Well, you have to be consistent.
Eleven hundred dollars is not
what you said in your answer.
That's not what he said
you asked him for,
so you have to be consistent
with what you say to me.
Do you understand?
So if you don't know, I'm going
to ask your husband.
Clearly you don't know
because it's not
what you wrote in the answer,
so how much was the car?
>> The total amount of the car
was $2,600.
>> Judge Judy: Do you have
the bill of sale for the car?
>> Yes. We do.
>> Judge Judy:
I'd like to see it.
Okay.
>> Your Honor, I disagree.
>> Judge Judy: Well, I'm just
showing you this piece of paper.
>> Your Honor, my wife had
already had $1,500
saved up for a vehicle,
and we had priorly went
and looked at another vehicle,
and Mr. Carrano
took us to look at that vehicle,
and we both looked at it
and decided
it was a piece of junk.
My wife showed him a picture
of the Cadillac,
and he agreed to help her
get that Cadillac.
It wasn't a loan.
It was a gift.
They had known each other
for many, many years.
I have been with April
for 10 years.
We have been married for 5.
It was a gift.
He chose to help her out
because I was not
working at the time, and...
>> Judge Judy: If you weren't
working at the time
and your wife
doesn't have to get to a job,
clearly, she says
she doesn't have to get to a job
because she doesn't work,
what did she need a car for?
>> It was the beginning
of the season.
>> Judge Judy:
The beginning of what...
>> I'm a seasonal worker,
so it was the beginning
of the season, so...
>> Judge Judy:
Who cares where the...
I'm not talking about you.
I said, "Who was the car for?"
You, sir,
pointed to her, to your wife.
You said she wanted the car.
>> Because it's her dream car.
>> Judge Judy: Who cares?
You don't buy your dream car
if you don't have the money.
What is...ridiculous...
"This is my dream car,
and I have no money,
and my husband isn't working."
>> That's what I was trying
to get to, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: Yeah.
Well, just a second.
Just...
>> I was getting ready
to start working,
and I had started working
when she got the vehicle.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
So what does that mean to him,
that you started to work?
I mean, good for you
that you started to work.
If I asked him, he'll tell me
he worked his whole life,
so it's useless for you
to tell me
that you were starting to work.
What did that have to do
with your wife having a car?
>> To get around, to get her
grandchildren around.
>> Judge Judy: What does she
have to get around
in her dream car for?
>> That...I mean, we have...
>> Judge Judy: I'm asking you
a question.
>> We have grandchildren for her
to run to doctor's appointments
and stuff like that.
My stepson works full-time, and
so does his fiancée, so we...
>> Judge Judy:
What does that have to...
>> ...do have our grandchildren
a lot, so therefore if something
was to happen to them,
she would need
a vehicle to get around in.
>> Judge Judy: Is what you're
telling me, sir,
that your wife,
who is on mental disability,
takes care
of young grandchildren?
>> Yes.
She's not mentally disabled.
She has PTSD.
>> Judge Judy:
Well, that's what she told me.
>> She has PTSD.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
That's what she told me,
that she gets disability
from the government.
That's what she told me, sir...
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: ...that she gets
disability from the government,
that she cannot work,
and therefore
gets how much a month?
>> Seven hundred
and twenty-six dollars.
>> Judge Judy: Seven hundred
and twenty-six dollars a month,
and how old are
the grandchildren
that she takes care of?
>> Two and two months.
>> Judge Judy: Two
and two months.
>> But she is not bipolar
or anything like that.
She has PTSD from watching
her child get ran over.
>> Judge Judy:
How much did you lend them?
>> I lent them $3,500.
>> Judge Judy: And how much did
they pay you back?
>> Eight hundred and so many
dollars,
I have to look at my notes.
>> Judge Judy: No.
Figure it out.
>> They paid back $865.
>> Judge Judy: How many times,