Custody Battle Ends in Arrest! | Part 1
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00:00I said, no, it's not your weekend.
00:02And she came anyway.
00:03A child custody tug-of-war.
00:05I went to go pull my son back from her.
00:08She falls to the ground.
00:09You created a situation.
00:11Now mom deals with a fallout.
00:13Your son has decided to live with his father,
00:16and he's angry with you.
00:17I don't agree, Your Honor, that my son is upset with me.
00:19Really?
00:20Your son watched his father get arrested.
00:24This is Judge Judy.
00:27Miss Scott, how are you related to Mr. Smith?
00:30I'm his current wife.
00:32How long have you been married?
00:33Two years.
00:34Do you have children together?
00:35No.
00:36You have children?
00:37Yes.
00:37How old are they?
00:3824, 18, 13.
00:41And your husband has two children.
00:43How old are they?
00:4421 and 16.
00:46And the 16-year-old is a boy?
00:48Yes.
00:48And you currently have custody of him?
00:51Yes, I do.
00:51Prior to that, was he living with his mother?
00:54Yes, he was.
00:54For how long?
00:55Three years.
00:56And how long have you and your former wife been divorced?
01:01Since 2016.
01:02So it would be fair to say that after the divorce,
01:05he lived with his mother.
01:06Is that right?
01:07Yes, Your Honor.
01:08Okay.
01:08So now he's living with his father.
01:11The lawsuits that Ms. Smith and Mr. Scott have
01:14allege that you filed restraining orders against him,
01:19not against you, but you paid his bail.
01:21Yes.
01:22Which was how much?
01:25$1,641.70.
01:26And that payment of bail was for what you're suing for,
01:31is for a false arrest and a false restraining order.
01:34Yes.
01:34It caused you to be held by the police for a better part of the day
01:39until you were bailed out.
01:41Yes, that's correct, Your Honor.
01:42So I would like to see the police report from you, Ms. McLaren.
01:48Now, in the three years that your son was living with you,
01:52you alternated weekends with his father.
01:56Is that right?
01:57Yes, Your Honor.
01:57That's correct.
01:58And this incident that sparked this event was on a weekend.
02:03Yes, Your Honor.
02:03And was that weekend his weekend or your weekend?
02:08That was his weekend, Your Honor.
02:09And this incident took place at his house?
02:11Your Honor, that's correct.
02:12Yes.
02:13So I want you to tell me what you were doing there at his house
02:17at a time when your son, who's 16, was with his father.
02:21Okay.
02:21Tell me what you were doing there.
02:22Okay.
02:23So...
02:23Let's start.
02:24Were you invited there by either your former husband or his wife?
02:29No, Your Honor.
02:30So what had happened was the weekend prior was my son's homecoming weekend,
02:34which was a Saturday.
02:35So I was in communication with my ex-husband about,
02:39you know, I don't want him to miss his homecoming.
02:41Let him go to his homecoming, and I'll catch up with him another time.
02:45Just a minute.
02:45So he was living with his father.
02:47Yes.
02:48And he had a homecoming that he must have discussed with you and said to you.
02:53If he's a nice boy, he said, I'd really love to see you,
02:56but I really want to go to the homecoming.
02:57Is it okay if I go to the homecoming?
02:59Yes, absolutely, Your Honor.
03:01Is that what he said?
03:01Yes.
03:02So he spoke to his father and said he can stay and go to the homecoming.
03:06Yes, Your Honor.
03:07So I wanted to come visit him the following weekend.
03:10We're going to go out to dinner.
03:11Had you made arrangements with your son?
03:13Yes, Your Honor.
03:14And I had communicated with my ex-husband as well.
03:16Just a second.
03:17So you communicated with your ex-husband how?
03:20Via text message.
03:20I'd like to see it.
03:21I don't have the text message.
03:23Why not?
03:23I don't have it because I didn't keep it in my phone.
03:26On what date did this happen?
03:28November of 2019.
03:30I would have those text messages on my phone.
03:32I got text messages that go back to 2015, especially one where I had my ex-husband arrested.
03:39And we also spoke by phone verbally as well.
03:42Well, so far, I'm not believing the text message because you don't have it unless you acknowledge
03:48that you got a text message.
03:49No, Your Honor.
03:50No text message.
03:51Okay.
03:51No text message.
03:52So now I sort of question phone.
03:54Let us assume that I believe you about having a phone conversation with him.
03:58Yes.
03:59I'm not saying I do, but let's assume it.
04:01And he said, okay, come up and have dinner with him.
04:05Is that what he said?
04:07No, Your Honor.
04:07So you called him and said, I'm taking, what's your son's name?
04:12Micaiah.
04:12Micaiah.
04:13Yes.
04:13I'm coming to take Micaiah to dinner tonight.
04:16And his father said?
04:18His father stated, well, it's not your weekend.
04:20And I said, well, because...
04:21So he said, it's not your weekend.
04:23That's it.
04:24He said, it's not your weekend.
04:25Yes.
04:26You responded, well, last weekend, I let him go to homecoming.
04:29So I'm coming this weekend.
04:30Yeah, to have dinner with him.
04:31Just a second.
04:32Yeah.
04:32I'm coming this weekend.
04:33And did his father say, okay?
04:35He didn't say, okay.
04:36So what did you go for?
04:37So I went up there to spend dinner with my son.
04:46I went up there to be our son.