Taylor Frankie Paul Requests Restraining Order; Decide Refuses to Grant Her Custody of 2-Yr-Previous Son
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The endless Taylor Frankie Paul drama continued in the present day.
Sadly, for producers of each The Bachelorette and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, it’s not the form of drama that interprets to high quality actuality TV.
In line with newly filed court docket paperwork, Taylor has filed for a brief restraining order in opposition to 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 “lively 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.”
In addition they accused Dakota of leaking the footage and referred to 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 an announcement.
He was initially awarded sole custody of the couple’s 2-year-old little one


Within the wake of the video’s launch, Taylor misplaced custody of her youngest little one.
In court docket in the present day, a decide amended the settlement barely, granting Taylor eight hours of supervised visitation time (per TMZ).
The decide has but to rule on Taylor’s request for a brief restraining order.
Since Taylor and Dakota have a child collectively, they’ll by no means be capable to totally take away themselves from one another’s lives.
However hopefully — given how a lot violence and drama there was of their comparatively transient relationship — the exes may have minimal contact with each other going ahead.
We may have additional updates on this creating story as new info turns into accessible.



