For anyone curious, Carmella has no custody of any of her children neither does Josh. Both boys got adopted as well as the baby. All kids are doing much better!! (The plaintiff was my aunt and her son is my cousin)

Always the children who pay the hefty price for so call adults' mistakes.

Poor innocent babies. This is a horrible living situation. The grown ups already messing up their kids bc of drugs and wrong priorities. God help all children that go through this 🙏🏼

I feel so sorry for the poor 10 year old who "ended up" in a behavioral health unit for 10 days, and now in a "therapeutic" foster home... I pray for that little boy...🙏

So clearly nobody wants the kids but want the government assistance & the right claim them on their taxes. I pray these kids finds love through someone who will love them properly ❤️🙏🏾

No wonder the 10yrs old child was rebellious, I pray he will turn up ok later in life. Love JJ for correcting her with the meaning of separation and divorce.

“Divorced you mean?” JJ: “Not divorced you were never married” 😳🤭😬

How sad for the 10 year old. Separated from his siblings and his parents.

The 10 year old wasn't aggressive living with his father however, became aggressive while in care of the mother / step grandmother. It makes me wonder if something illegal / traumatic happened to him. That's what CPS should investigate.

So they ruin the life of the 10 year old but instead of helping him, they give him away. They all sound like horrible people.

STOP HAVING KIDS YALL CANT CONTROL/AFFORD/BE RESPONSIBLE FOR JEEZ LUISE!!!

I always feel so bad for the kids stuck in the middle of these kind of messes.

Yo there's always at least one person on this show that's always out of work, looking for work, on disability, or on welfare. 😤

Did judge judy have to stop herself from saying “Shut the F up” 😂

My mom and dad were like this, I'm 57 and haven't spoke to either in 47 years. Don't miss either

All I can think is that poor 10 year old. God only can know what he saw or experience with 2 drug addict parents and instead of ppl being patient and loving him through it they dispose of him like a dog to a shelter. Hurts my soul.

There’s a blonde lady behind the defendant who I swear is at nearly every JJ case 😂

These poor children of the world, discarded while their parents have their fun and leave a hurricane of chaos in their wake.

50 bucks a week… That’s pocket change

Judge Judy called him Mr. Menendez, when his name is Mr.Mendez…she had true crime on her mind 🤣

Grateful that despite it being a struggle my parents actually raised me. Too many just get dragged up theses days.

No time for the kids but time for court ! Smh .

J.Judy driving home the "if you're not married then your claim is bullcrap" thing in every relevant case gives me life

She said “Stop moving pages” 🤦🏾‍♂️😂😂😂

Granny not only needs to tone down her anger, she needs someone to guide her in dressing for court versus for a luau. She needs a tall glass with umbrellas in it.

It amazes me that people involved in this kind of train wreck will go on national TV and expose their idiocy for all the world to see. And now that it's memorialized on KZfaq, they'll never be able to hide from it.

i seriously dont get how people can dress casually to court.

I can’t imagine family reunions with this crew. Geeeezalooo!

So sad and pitiful that the ten year old isn’t with his siblings . This breaks my heart. He is only ten. If he is acting out the solution isn’t to move him out 😡. All these so called parents don’t deserve to have kids. Boy they don’t want to keep kids by line up to get paid because of the kids

STOP MOVING PAGES!! bro picked a bad day to move pages 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That woman has Got to stop having babies. She is clearly not able to look after them and it is unfair to those she has to be shuffled around all the time.

NO MOTHER-IN-LAW IS GOING TO GIVE ONE OF MY CHILDREN AWAY AND KEEP THE ONE I HAD WITH HER BIOLOGICAL SON. That’s despicable. The mom, dad/stepdad, and the grandmother should be ashamed of themselves. If you can’t get your life together for a child, don’t have one, let alone have three! The only victims are the

I haven’t even watched this yet but I clicked on it so fast. Seriously? Who gets to claim the kids on taxes? What an unbelievable preventable mess

It's all about the money and not the kids how sad. I feel so bad for all the kids especially the ten year old.

How bad a parent must be for the government to take all your kids away from you 🤨

Absolutely awful. These people should really not have children at all

As a straight man that enjoys women my own age… Judy’s lipstick is always ON POINT 😂

Meth is one hell of a drug.

"Stop moving papers!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

It’s always the kids that get hurt worst of all…

She's looking very professional for her court TV appearance.

First of all…….. the mother of the child that the grandmother gave up DIDNT EVEN TRY TO GET HER CHILD BACK?!

Some ppl should just be spayed or neutered! Smh.

These THREE chikdren have my utmost sympathy. The mom,dad(s) n grandmother,,,,? Not One bit of sympathy!

$50 a week??? For 2 children? He got off easy!

imagine your family giving up on you and sending you into foster care because you’re “too hard to handle” the plaintiff is fucking EVIL

Poor children!!! I hope and pray all of them find the love they deserve!!! It's so sickening how greedy and selfish people can be!!!

Omg love ❤️ you judge 👩‍⚖️ thank you for serving people in a very sincere manner

GLAD THE CHILDREN ARE DOING WELL NOW..........SOME PEOPLE DONT DESERVE CHILDREN!!

Why didn't she grill the "mother" about paying child support for all the years he had full custody? That's rhetorical.... we already know why.

$50 a week 🤦🏾‍♀️

I'm sick if my taxes going to these people!

There are way to many incapable people who makes babies way to easy. And it is always the children who suffers.

Children are the ones who suffer the most.

Dudes getting with women that already have kids is beyond me

So the parents are fighting for money instead of their own kids

Wish I could hug the children

Poor kiddo :( sorry buddy, your mother and your guardian failed you completely, especially your mother. I hope your life is much better now.

She talks about that little boy like he’s an animal smh. Shame on you. This isn’t an animal shelter, these are children. If they don’t “work” for you you exhaust all options and specialists not give them up. People should have pets before kids.

Interesting case . He shouldn’t of claimed them on his 2016 tax return bc they didn’t live with him .

I wonder why the oldest has aggression issues. 🙄

"Stop moving pages." 😹

Some people should NOT have kids, smh. At the end of the day, they are fighting for money and the kids are suffering. Sad.

Nobody cares about the kids but everyone's mad about the money. Odd.

My ex went back to his hometown and claimed the children on his taxes when I had them. This mysterious lady from Revenue Canada started harassing me on the phone as she reversed the claim stating that he had the children. I provided documentation 3 times to Revenue Canada proving that the children were in my custody yet they still have not done an adjustment to my taxes. I spoke with a local taxation lawyer and he advised me to cease taking calls from the worker back east (I reside on the west coast) as she had obviously done something illegal. This is going back 10 years now and Revenue Canada has yet to rectify the claim properly. I don't know how government agencies can withhold the money they owe you when a corrupt worker has taken advantage of the situation on someone else's behalf. The most ridiculous thing about this is HR Block was requesting documention of a rental receipt from my landlord, a utility bill in my name in order to prove the children were with me. When I had a Revenue Canada worker on the phone I asked him how these documents proved that the children were residing with me. I told him that I literally could have gone to 10 different neighbors and had them write up affidavits stating this to be true. Would that not be more proof than a hydro bill??? RC needs to seriously revise their requirements as to what information they are collecting as proof. This is utter BS.

I have 2 kids with my ex. We just each claim one... But the way it supposed to go is the Custodial parent claims them unless there is a court order

And we wonder how kids grow up to be screwed up adults.

As a teacher, I always say that the kids suffer the consequences of their parents choices. And they bring that weight to school, it is so sad for them.

She came to court in a night gown

I feel so sad for the 10 year old. How sad that they gave up on him 😞

So sad to give up 1 child and not the other you could just imagine the pain that child is oing through wondering why him soooo sad.

"This is your daughter in law" "Yes it is"

I HATE these folks. That poor boy 😣 I’m sick thinking of what he’s going through, just a child and victim of these buffoons

As hard as it is to hear about the 10 yr old being sent away, sometimes it is better for the child to be away from the home dynamic. The adults get into patterns of behavior towards the child and get locked into their beliefs about what they expect from the child(good or bad) which locks the child into patterns of behavior that are destructive but gets him what he thinks he wants. By him being outside the home and in a new environment, with adults who do not have a preconceived idea of him and know how to guide him into productive behaviors and how not to react to his destructive behaviors(so he is not inadvertently rewarded), he has a chance to learn and grow in the right direction. Hopefully the adults in his life take that time to learn how to parent him in a more constructive way and learn how to work with him with an open mind. If the adults do not take the time to change themselves, he goes right back into the same dynamic and will revert back to the way he was acting. From a previous post by a cousin it sounds like the young man was adopted into a new home and is doing well.

That mother showed up to court high. That should be the most embarrassing thing a mother could do when it comes to her children’s welfare…show up high to court.

they're worried about taxes???? greedy and wrong smh.

Why is the mother in law wearing a summer nighty. Yuk

J.j can do this case blindfolded, she spent many years doing cases like these

I don't understand why she wants to take care of somebody else children but they are arguing claiming their children of their taxes come on and all this unnecessary drama for what just sad and ridiculous?

Lord bless those children!

I have 2 siblings. My mom would claim 1, dad would claim 2, then switch the next year. When 1 aged out, they just each claimed 1. And when she aged out, they went back to switching every year with me. Very mutual. And my father payed child support

Throw all of them in jail . Disgusting people

You know this is a tv show when the judge is going on and on about the history of who had the kids, when that doesn't matter. For tax purposes, outside of a court order, it's all about physical custody. Who had the kids for the most days of the year. Full stop. Child support doesn't come into play when it comes to determining dependents. If a court order says one parent can claim the children on their taxes, then that supersedes the the physical custody portion. Grandma only had the kids for 3 months of the year. If the kids were with their mother the 9 months, then the mother gets to claim the kids, regardless of if custody should have been with the father. Tax law in some situations really isn't that hard. *source - I used to work for the IRS.

So I'm going to court, on TV, and I'm gonna wear my 7$ yellow tank top. Perfect!

$50.00 a week in child support is peanuts. When I was a baby, my deadbeat Dad only paid $37.50 a week. Sometimes, he didn't even pay any at all, always a BS excuse like "I forgot", "I don't have any money", etc

Shame on those parents! Bring kids into this world and the kids pay the price for having no good parents!

Stop having children you can’t afford to take care of without relying on other people.

That’s messed up for the 10-year-old she gave up on him after 10 days for one for two days is your grandson I’m glad my mom is not like this lady

$50/week for childcare? what a guy!

Kids are products of their environment!and we wonder why our society and culture is screwed up!

The dysfunction is strong with this one. Holy hell.

I mean damn, you’re coming before this judge and the world and that’s what everybody wore?

She gets food stamps but has that expensiveasss Pandora necklace

JJ was about to tell that woman to shut the f up but she caught herself.. lmao

My parents used to fight like wolverines come tax time. It was awful.

Taxes will you get you caught up. Especially child taxes!!

He's got a massive bald spot.

"Stop shuffling the papersss" - Byrd

Years ago when my daughter was born We never allowed the system at the hospital or anywhere to put a number on our daughter Denoting social security voluntary acquiescence and giving the system power over over us and our Daughter. Do any of you out there in the world of the United States understand the contract that you are putting your children under when they are born. ? ? Time for you to start looking into what you are giving and the power you are giving to the state by doing this voluntary contract. Enjoy

My son has all custody of his son. The state DCFS showed up at our house and said he’d been placed on a safety plan. Then wouldn’t tell us why. About a week later they came back and let us know his mom had delivered her new baby and it was taken at birth over substances ( she did this with my grandson and had cases pending ) A year later the court said she was completely unfit as she didn’t bother to show up to any court dates or visitation with her son. Guess who claimed on taxes again this year !!!!!!! No flipping court order was made on taxes. Her rights were terminated in October last year , 2022, She claimed him anyway and got her return and we now have a lawyer. She’s claimed him every year and we’ve had him full time for 2 of those years. We never asked her for anything at all. We just begged her to get help and bond with her son. Smh so more lawyer money. It’s outrageous what goes on with taxes for kids. This lady never has had her kids during this time of claiming them . She should go to jail and pay back the money 100%