Judge Allows 'mormon Wives' Star Taylor Frankie Paul To Have Supervised Visits With Son

A Utah judge ruled Tuesday that reality TV prima Taylor Frankie Paul tin person supervised visits pinch nan 2-year-old boy she shares pinch Dakota Mortensen until different proceeding for a protective bid later this month.

Paul appeared remotely for nan proceeding connected Tuesday pinch on-again, off-again ex-boyfriend Mortensen — nan begetter of Paul’s 3rd child, Ever — regarding his petition for a restraining order. Paul had temporarily mislaid custody of their erstwhile a impermanent protective bid was awarded to Mortensen past month. Paul and Mortensen are known for their roles connected nan Hulu reality TV bid “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.”

Third territory tribunal commissioner Russell Minas decided connected supervised visitation aft Paul’s ineligible squad voiced interest complete Mortensen’s alleged deficiency of credibility and his attorneys raised interest complete her “volatility,” citing abstracted incidents from May 2025 and February. Paul was granted up to 8 hours a week of visitation.

“I person concerns going some ways, rather frankly,” Minas said, noting Mortensen’s alleged “pushing of buttons to get reaction” and Paul’s “troubling” reactions to nan aggravation.

The embattled exes are besides ordered to look remotely astatine a tribunal proceeding connected April 30 to spell complete nan “merits and entry” of Mortensen’s protective bid against Paul. Prior to Tuesday’s hearing, Paul revenge her ain protective bid against Mortensen.

Mortensen revenge for his protective bid pursuing 2 incidents successful February that progressive “grabbing, scratching, shoving, and striking” that allegedly near Mortensen pinch marks connected his neck, according to constabulary documents.

Around nan aforesaid time, nan formed of “Mormon Wives” paused filming for Season 5 and, subsequently, nan merchandise of a video of a abstracted conflict successful 2023 led to nan shelving of Season 22 of ABC’s “The Bachelorette,” which featured Paul arsenic its heroine. In nan video, recorded by Mortensen connected his cellphone, Paul tin beryllium seen screaming and throwing metallic chairs, 1 of which struck 1 of her children who witnessed nan altercation, according to nan criminal indictment. Police assemblage camera footage from that incident was documented successful nan first play of “Mormon Wives.”

That 2023 incident resulted successful Paul being arrested; she yet pleaded blameworthy successful abeyance to aggravated assault, reducing her sentence, truthful agelong arsenic she follows nan position of her probation. A last reappraisal proceeding scheduled for early August could people nan extremity of that probation, but it’s unclear if nan caller allegations — constabulary are besides investigating a 3rd home unit claim from Mortensen against Paul that took spot successful 2024 — will impact that.

How nan outcomes of these various tribunal decisions will impact “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and nan unaired play of “The Bahcelorette” is yet to beryllium seen. It has not been announced whether nan making love bid will yet air, aliases if and erstwhile “Mormon Wives” will resume filming — and whether Paul will proceed connected arsenic a formed member. (Both Hulu and ABC are owned by Disney.)

The judge’s bid this week is nan latest improvement successful nan fallout from nan home unit investigation involving Paul and Mortensen.

Last week brought much collateral harm to Disney’s reality TV beingness pinch nan news that Mortensen’s storyline would beryllium edited out of nan caller play of “Vanderpump Villa,” which follows erstwhile Bravo prima Lisa Vanderpump and her unit astatine various luxury European estates. The 3rd play of “Mormon Wives” featured nan fallout from an explosive crossover pinch “Vanderpump Villa” that resulted successful “Mormon Wives” stars Demi Engemann and Jessi Ngatikaura getting embroiled successful play pinch unit personnel Marciano Brunette, who alleges he had friendly connections pinch some women. The 4th play of “Mormon Wives” revisits nan crossover, pinch immoderate of nan women’s spouses and exes, who telephone themselves #DadTok, partaking successful their ain “Villa” getaway that fuels much drama, including betwixt Mortensen and Paul.

Season 3 of “Vanderpump Villa,” which starts streaming connected April 16, is expected to seizure that stay, isolated from now without Mortensen’s storyline. But he isn’t wholly disconnected screens. Mortensen is group to look successful “Unwell Winter Games,” a YouTube reality title bid produced by Alex Cooper, that premiered connected Monday.