Overview
- Utah’s Division of Child and Family Services filed a juvenile petition this month asking a judge to find that Taylor Frankie Paul’s three children are abused, neglected or dependent and to order protective supervision for their care.
- DCFS also asked the court to appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the children and to issue any additional orders the judge deems in the children’s best interests.
- Taylor publicly denied several specific claims in an Instagram video, said she has regained extended time with her 2-year-old son, and said she is cooperating with attorneys while awaiting pending test results and further hearings.
- Attorneys for the children’s fathers, Dakota Mortensen and Tate Paul, issued a joint statement saying the DCFS filing is not a routine transfer to juvenile court and praising the agency for stepping in to protect the children.
- The case sits alongside active family court actions that previously limited Taylor to supervised visitation, awarded temporary custody of one child to Mortensen, and ordered sobriety testing, and it now moves to juvenile-court procedures that could materially change custody and oversight.