Overview
- Joseph Duggar was arrested on March 18, 2026, in Bay County, Florida, on charges of lewd and lascivious acts involving a child under 12 and has pleaded not guilty.
- He was released on a $600,000 bond with conditions barring contact with the alleged victim and any unsupervised contact with minors, a restriction his lawyers say has cut him off from his four young children.
- Duggar filed motions in mid‑May asking the court to amend the no‑contact order to allow communication with his biological children and to permit him to maintain several properties he says lie within 500 feet of the address listed in the order.
- A Florida judge this week authorized defense depositions of investigators and ordered agencies such as the Department of Children and Families to turn over interview recordings, reports and other investigatory materials for use in the defense.
- Kendra Duggar’s Arkansas no‑contact order was lifted on April 17 so she reunited with the children, while her parents have reportedly relocated, launched a GoFundMe for displacement costs, and say they are distancing themselves from the Duggar household; a Florida pretrial hearing is set for July 14 and an Arkansas court date for August 10.