McCullagh

FACTS

Kiosef and McCullagh met in 1999. For most of the time from 2001 to 2015, they lived together in a nonmarital relationship and had four children together. McCullagh alleged that she left their residence in 2015 out of fear due to repeated and continuous verbal, physical and mental abuse. In August 2001, a fictitious business name statement for King Bee Apiarys was filed with the Kern County auditor-controller-county clerk. Kiosef was the only owner listed. The parties dispute which of them came up with the name. McCullagh testified they were talking about giving the business a name, he suggested Chris’s bees, she said that there was one queen bee that runs the worker bees and he could be the king bee, and Kiosef kind of laughed. Then she said, “No really. You be King Bee, King Bee Apiarys” and he agreed. Lucas Martin, a man who worked for Kiosef for about eight months in

2. 2015 to 2016, testified Kiosef told him that McCullagh “helped come up with the name for the business and he liked it and he went with that name.” Although Kiosef may have acquired bees earlier, the start of the bee pollination business in 2001 is supported by Kiosef’s federal income tax returns for…