{"id":953,"date":"2026-09-29T12:59:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truecrime.rcdbs.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:59:30","slug":"judy-justice-stephanie-perez-wins-1900-after-matthew-bowens-video-claim-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truecrime.rcdbs.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Judy Justice: Stephanie Perez Wins $1,900 After Matthew Bowen\u2019s Video Claim Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sirens wailed. Voices rose. Somewhere on a truck-stop property, a phone was recording a confrontation that would later become part of a courtroom dispute. But when Stephanie Perez and Matthew Bowen appeared before Judge Judy, the case was decided by quieter evidence: a $2,000 bank transfer, text messages acknowledging an unpaid obligation, and a missing witness who could not connect Perez to Bowen\u2019s job loss.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/2c6e95cd-9d3c-499d-854c-14c409264b0f-mceclip1.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Relationship Formed at a Truck Stop<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Stephanie Perez and Matthew Bowen met while working at a truck stop in January 2022. Their relationship soon moved beyond the workplace. Perez told the court that she began staying at Bowen\u2019s home and helping with his children, although she continued to maintain her own residence. She said she remained there for the entire two-month period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/bd0156f1-c2ba-4635-93c3-30e8c5e35341-mceclip2.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The arrangement was practical as well as personal. Perez\u2019s own children were away in another state for the summer, while Bowen had full-time physical custody of two children. Bowen testified that he had cared for them since 2020 and had court-ordered legal custody. For a time, Perez was living in Bowen\u2019s home, caring for the children, and still paying for her own house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/405476e1-ee72-416c-aa40-0fed8380cf8d-mceclip3.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">That relationship later became the backdrop to a financial disagreement. Perez said she gave Bowen $2,000 to help him pay an attorney\u2019s fee. Bowen admitted receiving the money. The dispute was not over whether the transfer happened; it was over what the payment meant and whether Bowen was required to return it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The relationship ended badly. Bowen agreed that the separation was unpleasant, though he said the two remained friends for a while. Perez\u2019s account suggested that the emotional and practical arrangement had left her carrying responsibilities without receiving the repayment she expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/56ef1712-c6c2-4533-b178-9e923baa56bb-mceclip5.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Custody Dispute Behind the Attorney\u2019s Fee<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The legal expense arose from a custody crisis. Bowen explained that one of the mothers of his children sought to take custody back. The situation escalated through ex parte applications\u2014requests made to a judge without a regular hearing involving both sides at that moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Bowen told the court that he lost custody in January and regained the children in February. More specifically, he said the mother brought them back on February 12 after deciding she could not manage the situation alone. He had continued caring for them afterward, while the court paperwork was being finalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/ae047688-017c-4848-a778-6629d71a9112-mceclip6.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The transcript also records Bowen\u2019s frustration with the process. He said the original arrangement had been set out for roughly eight months, a period during which he believed he would not even be heard. Judge Judy described that experience as a difficult and potentially outrageous one. The custody conflict was therefore not a minor background detail; it was the immediate pressure behind Bowen\u2019s search for legal representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By June 2022, Bowen and Perez were looking for an attorney. Bowen said Perez offered $7,000 for a lawyer her mother had used, but he considered that amount too high. They found another attorney in Lancaster who quoted a fee of $3,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/5a43e774-89b1-4d7b-97a2-ed7124dc7eae-mceclip7.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the $2,000 Payment Was Arranged<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The sequence of the payment became a point of tension in court. Bowen said he went to the Lancaster attorney alone and received the $3,500 quote. He had $1,500 available. According to his testimony, Perez supplied the remaining $2,000, allowing him to move forward with the attorney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Perez described the arrangement in more specific financial terms. She said she was not working at the time and used her savings. She agreed to help Bowen with the attorney\u2019s fee on the understanding that he would help her when her own bills came due. She transferred the money bank-to-bank into Bowen\u2019s account because they used the same bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/52005c38-be8c-49c1-830c-9d893ec13c18-mceclip9.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The payment was made on June 6. Perez said her mortgage, electric, and gas bills began coming due a couple of weeks later. She testified that Bowen then told her he did not have money to help her. At that point, what Perez had understood as an exchange of financial help began to look, from her perspective, like an unpaid debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The text messages became important. Perez said Bowen acknowledged that he owed her money and promised to try to send some when he could. Bowen agreed that the messages showed he recognized an obligation. He had also returned approximately $100, a figure Perez confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Judge Judy drew a careful distinction. The messages did not create a perfectly defined written loan contract. Statements such as \u201cI\u2019ll help you out with my bills\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ll give you some money when I have it\u201d did not specify every repayment term. Still, Bowen\u2019s receipt of the $2,000, his connection of the money to the attorney\u2019s fee, his text messages, and the $100 repayment all mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/e0a09042-1d7d-48d2-97d4-1414f0e6ebfa-mceclip13.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The September 18 Confrontation<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Bowen\u2019s counterclaim came from a separate incident at the truck stop on September 18, 2022. He said he had worked there for approximately a year and a half and was serving as a cashier when he noticed a man take a party speaker priced at about $400, along with other electronic items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Bowen testified that he tried to alert his co-workers, calling out that the man was stealing. When no one responded, he followed the man outside and told him to return the merchandise. Bowen said he swatted the speaker out of the man\u2019s hand. He then claimed the man attacked him and that he defended himself. Bowen also said the man had a knife, which he estimated to be about eight inches long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/f0a7233e-139a-46f3-8731-1def7f7d5d0f-mceclip14.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A random trucker recorded part of the encounter. Bowen said he did not know why the trucker was filming. He later received the recording from a former co-worker who had obtained it from someone shown in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">When the footage was played, Bowen could be heard yelling toward the camera and calling the other person \u201cpunk.\u201d He explained that his adrenaline was pumping and that he had not realized he was being recorded. The video documented part of the confrontation, but it did not, by itself, establish what happened before the recording began or what happened afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/c2bd7ee6-3c10-42a9-b568-dd99834c3be3-mceclip15.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why the Video Did Not Prove Bowen\u2019s Counterclaim<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Bowen alleged that Perez sent the video to his employer and to two mothers of his children. He claimed that the sharing of the video caused him to lose his job and helped those mothers in their custody applications. His counterclaim sought damages for lost wages and slander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Perez denied the allegation. She said Bowen had sent the video to her, but she had not sent it to corporate, to his workplace, or to either of the mothers. When Judge Judy asked the question directly, Perez answered that she had not sent the video to his place of business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/55d183c5-40b5-47fb-a74d-1bebf508db3f-mceclip16.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The judge then focused on what Bowen could prove. It was not enough to show that a video existed or that Perez had seen it. Bowen needed evidence that Perez sent it to his employer and evidence that the employer fired him because of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Bowen\u2019s expected witness was not in court. When pressed, he admitted that he had no proof connecting Perez to the alleged distribution. He also had no proof that the video was the reason for his termination. The recording showed a workplace confrontation, but it did not establish who delivered it to the employer or what decision the employer made because of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Judge Judy dismissed the counterclaim. The ruling did not determine that every detail of Bowen\u2019s account of the confrontation was false. It determined that he had not proved the specific allegations required to recover damages from Perez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/8396e2ee-1c0c-468a-a744-b175b3c6980a-mceclip19.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The $1,900 Judgment<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The court treated the two claims separately. Perez\u2019s financial claim was not supported by a perfect written contract, but the surrounding evidence showed that Bowen received $2,000 for the attorney\u2019s fee, acknowledged owing money, and had repaid about $100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">That left a balance of $1,900. Judge Judy entered judgment for Perez in that amount and dismissed Bowen\u2019s counterclaim for lost wages and slander. The case ended not with a finding that the video was irrelevant, but with a finding that the video could not prove the chain of responsibility Bowen needed to establish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/truecrime.rcdbs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_314.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truecrime.rcdbs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_314.png 896w, https:\/\/truecrime.rcdbs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_314-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/truecrime.rcdbs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_314-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Evidence Lessons Behind the Ruling<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Perez-Bowen case shows how quickly money and personal relationships can become impossible to separate. Perez was staying at Bowen\u2019s home, caring for his children, and maintaining her own residence. Bowen was facing a custody dispute and needed an attorney. In that setting, a promise to \u201chelp with bills\u201d could be understood very differently after the relationship ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The case also demonstrates why informal financial arrangements benefit from clear records. A written agreement could have identified the amount, the purpose of the payment, and the repayment date. The text messages helped establish that Bowen recognized an obligation, but they did not answer every question about the original agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The video raised a separate evidentiary problem. A recording can show an event, yet still fail to prove who circulated it, why it was circulated, and whether it caused a specific consequence. In this courtroom, those missing links mattered more than the emotional force of the footage itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/af9d6b2312d54a5376d2a4e19eed7f6a\/2026\/0902\/a3c83aa8-6ce7-4320-b64a-efa8e62c2f28-mceclip22.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FAQ<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Did Stephanie Perez win her case against Matthew Bowen?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes. Judge Judy entered judgment for Stephanie Perez in the amount of $1,900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why did Matthew Bowen owe Stephanie Perez $1,900?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perez gave Bowen $2,000 connected to an attorney\u2019s fee during a custody dispute. Bowen acknowledged receiving the money and had repaid approximately $100, leaving $1,900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Was the $2,000 described as a gift or a loan?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The parties disputed the nature of the payment. Perez treated it as money Bowen would repay or offset by helping with her bills. The court noted that the arrangement was not documented in a perfect loan contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What was Matthew Bowen\u2019s counterclaim?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bowen countersued for lost wages and slander. He alleged that Perez sent a video of a workplace confrontation to his employer and to mothers of his children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why was Bowen\u2019s counterclaim dismissed?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He could not prove that Perez sent the video to his employer or that the video caused his termination. His expected witness was also absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What happened in the workplace video?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bowen said he confronted a man who was leaving the truck stop with merchandise, including a party speaker worth about $400. He described a physical confrontation and said the man had a knife. The recording shown in court captured part of the incident and Bowen yelling toward the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sirens wailed. Voices rose. Somewhere on a truck-stop property, a phone was recording a confrontation that would later become part of a courtroom dispute. But when Stephanie Perez and Matthew Bowen appeared before Judge Judy, the case was decided by quieter evidence: a $2,000 bank transfer, text messages acknowledging an unpaid obligation, and a missing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[662,665,663,24,60,660,659,661,664],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-attorney-fee-dispute","tag-counterclaim","tag-custody-dispute","tag-judy-justice","tag-judy-justice-case","tag-matthew-bowen","tag-stephanie-perez","tag-unpaid-loan","tag-workplace-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Judy Justice: Stephanie Perez Wins $1,900 After Matthew Bowen\u2019s Video Claim Fails - RCDBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Judy Justice: Stephanie Perez Wins $1,900 After Matthew Bowen\u2019s Video Claim Fails - RCDBS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sirens wailed. 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