Nick Gordon is “legally responsible” for the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown.  This is the official ruling made today (Sept. 16) by Fulton County Judge T. Jackson Bedford regarding the $50 million wrongful death civil case against Gordon.

According to 11 Alive news reporter Jennifer Leslie, Gordon failed to appear in court today.

Via AJC.com

Brown, the then 22-year-old daughter of the late Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, died in August of last year following an incident where she was found unresponsive in a bathroom tub in her home in Roswell. It was an eerily similar death to that of her mother in a Beverly Hills hotel in early 2012.

“He is legally responsible for her death, and the only thing left for us now to prove is the value of her life,” a lawyer for Brown’s estate told 11Alive. “And we intend to do that.”

Brown’s legal counsel said Gordon has not cooperated with discovery, according to RadarOnline.

The suit claimed Gordon was guilty of assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and moving money from Brown’s account into his own without authorization.