If you are operating a business under your own name, or legal name of your partnership or corporation, you do not need to register a DBA. If the name of the business is not identical, however, it is a fictitious name.egal Requirements. In order to operate a business under a fictitious name, you must register that name with the clerk of court in the county where you are operating, or with the agency responsible for keeping track of businesses operating in your state.
1 Judge Judy and her husband Jerry Sheindlin were particularly playful at the Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai luncheon where she was the honoree. 2  The Emmy-winning TV judge just renewed her TV contract with CBS for another three years.
I decided to do some research and find out how these judge shows really work. I based my investigation on the most popular of judge shows: Judge Judy. Judith Sheindlin was, in fact, a judge at one point in her life; serving in family courts. She spent most of her career as a lawyer before the Judge Judy show came along. Is Judge Judy a judge? For the purposes of the show she is not. Judge Judy is a character on a TV show. She uses her own name and there is a certain likeness to the actual person. Think of Judge Judy as a personality, like Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report, or Nancy Grace on her awful show (wait, she might actually be a nut). Judy not paid like a judge (she does much better than a judge).