Overview
- Taylor Frankie Paul, following Tuesday's virtual hearing in Utah, was limited to eight hours of supervised parenting time per week while Dakota Mortensen keeps temporary custody of their son.
- Paul filed her own protective order less than an hour before the hearing on Mortensen’s request for his order of protection.
- After the session, Mortensen’s attorney, Joel Kittrell, said Paul tried to “assassinate” his character as a father and pledged to lay out their case on April 30.
- In court, Paul’s lawyer said Mortensen asked her client for sex after an alleged February assault, using the claim to challenge his account of the incident.
- The legal fight follows leaked 2023 footage that led to a plea in abeyance on aggravated assault and to media fallout, with Disney pulling her Bachelorette season and production paused on Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.