Taylor Frankie Paul Requests Restraining Order; Choose Refuses to Grant Her Custody of 2-Yr-Outdated Son
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The endless Taylor Frankie Paul drama continued right now.
Sadly, for producers of each The Bachelorette and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, it’s not the kind of drama that interprets to high quality actuality TV.
Based on newly filed court docket paperwork, Taylor has filed for a short lived restraining order towards Dakota Mortensen.
Taylor, after all, was filmed assaulting Dakota again in 2023.
She has repeatedly claimed that the video doesn’t inform all the story and that she was the actual sufferer of abuse.
In court docket paperwork filed this week, Taylor claims that there was a “sample of abusive conduct and coercive management” within the relationship.
Shortly after the footage went public, ABC canceled Taylor’s season of The Bachelorette, an unprecedented transfer that price the community tens of tens of millions.
Certainly, police in Draper and West Jordan, Utah have confirmed that “allegations have been made in each instructions.”
Final month, West Jordan police confirmed to Folks that there was an “energetic home violence case” involving each Taylor and Dakota, however the particulars are nonetheless unknown.
Reps for Taylor alleged that the video from 2024 “conveniently omits context.”
Additionally they accused Dakota of leaking the footage and known as its launch a “reprehensible try [by Mortensen] to distract from his personal conduct.”
“I’m, sadly, used to those baseless claims about me and our relationship, which I categorically deny,” Mortensen stated in a press release.
He was initially awarded sole custody of the couple’s 2-year-old youngster
Within the wake of the video’s launch, Taylor misplaced custody of her youngest youngster.
In court docket right now, a choose amended the settlement barely, granting Taylor eight hours of supervised visitation time (per TMZ).
The choose has but to rule on Taylor’s request for a short lived restraining order.
Since Taylor and Dakota have a child collectively, they’ll by no means be capable of absolutely take away themselves from one another’s lives.
However hopefully — given how a lot violence and drama there was of their comparatively temporary relationship — the exes can have minimal contact with each other going ahead.
We can have additional updates on this growing story as new info turns into out there.
