
This courtroom series stars former family court judge Judy Sheindlin. Each episode finds Judge Judy presiding over real small-claims cases inside a televised courtroom. Her no-nonsense, wisecracking approach has been unsuccessfully copied by other TV court judges.

When a woman moves to another state, her mother gives her dog away; a teen co-signs a loan for brother, then he skips out on payments; a woman, whose teeth hurt so badly she can't eat, is rescued by a former lover with a loan for dental care.

A man is accused of backing out of an agreement to help his ex-wife pay their son's expenses; a woman says her small dog was mauled by a larger dog.

In a child custody tug-of-war, a woman ignores her child's father's rights and tries to take their teen son, then has the father arrested, claiming he pushed her.

A teacher denies leaving her child in her car, which somehow crashed into a co-worker's vehicle; a landlady accuses a tenant of throwing trash from her balcony.