After its 7th season in early 2020, however, Lauren Lake's Paternity Court ended production, confirmed as cancelled by 2021.

MGM discarded of all of its courtroom programming following financial struggles from the COVID-19 pandemic and new owner Amazon's disinterest in broadcast syndication.

While the show's title is Paternity Court, it also looks into other situations using DNA verification, such as probate disputes over wills, which are litigated under a binding arbitration arrangement.

[9] Original plans for Paternity Court were to film the series from a real-life courtroom, though this later changed to a traditional studio setting.

The end of the aforementioned court shows are also rooted in MGM's station clientele consisting of lower-rated networks like The CW and MyNetworkTV.

[12] After its conclusion, Lake launched a podcast series about her show in July 2020,[12][13] featuring highlights of its "most popular, shocking, and provocative cases" in conjunction with Audio Up.

[14] It was announced on June 22, 2021, that Lake will return to television in a revival of the courtroom series, We the People, previously helmed by Gloria Allred.

Similarly to its first installment with Allred, the court show will be produced by Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, airing on JusticeCentralTV.