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Issues simply preserve getting worse for Taylor Frankie Paul.

Simply two days after Paul’s season of The Bachelorette was cancelled by ABC, the embattled actuality star has been dealt one more blow.

A number of retailers have now confirmed that Taylor’s ex, Dakota Mortensen, has been awarded sole bodily custody of their 2-year-old daughter.

As of now, the ruling is simply non permanent, and Taylor may have the possibility to plead her case to a decide on April 7.

However till then, she is not going to be permitted to see her daughter in any respect.

“No dad or mum time is allowed till the scheduled listening to,” reads a courtroom order obtained by Individuals journal.

Like each current setback in Taylor’s life, the custody determination is the results of video that reveals Taylor assaulting Dakota and hurling kitchen barstools at him.

To the shock of many viewers, one of many stools apparently struck Taylor’s five-year-old daughter.

“That is known as bodily abuse,” Mortensen could possibly be heard saying as he filmed the bodily altercation.

“Your daughter simply bought hit within the head by a metallic chair,” Mortensen remarked later within the clip.

Evidently, that’s the type of factor that’s more likely to affect your custody scenario.

Paul has two kids from a earlier relationship, nevertheless it doesn’t seem that there’s been any change in that custody association.

And Taylor’s scenario may quickly get even worse, as she could possibly be pressured to return the wage that she obtained throughout her time as Bachelorette.

Authorized specialists inform Web page Six that Paul could also be required to return some or all of her paycheck after ABC made the last-minute determination to tug the already-filmed season.

The reasoning is pretty easy: contracts for actuality TV leads typically embrace clauses tied to conduct and the flexibility of a community to really air the completed product.

If that’s the case with Frankie’s contract — which it virtually actually is — the community might doubtlessly demand reimbursement, and even pursue extra damages tied to the price of manufacturing.

“When working with a public particular person for any venture, corporations virtually all the time embrace a morality clause within the contract,” lawyer Ashlee Difuntorum of Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP tells Web page Sic.

And the prices for one thing like a full season of The Bachelorette will not be small.

As beforehand reported, ABC had already spent hundreds of thousands producing and selling the season earlier than pulling it from the schedule, leaving the community with little alternative to recoup its funding.

And that might imply extra hassle for the hard-luck Mormon Spouse.

We may have additional updates on this growing story as new info turns into accessible.