Judge allows 'Mormon Wives' star Taylor Frankie Paul to have supervised visits with son

A Utah justice ruled Tuesday that world TV prima Taylor Frankie Paul tin person supervised visits with the 2-year-old lad she shares with Dakota Mortensen until different proceeding for a protective bid aboriginal this month.

Paul appeared remotely for the proceeding connected Tuesday with on-again, off-again ex-boyfriend Mortensen — the 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 the Hulu world TV bid “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.”

Third territory tribunal commissioner Russell Minas decided connected supervised visitation aft Paul’s ineligible squad voiced interest implicit Mortensen’s alleged deficiency of credibility and his attorneys raised interest implicit 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 the aggravation.

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

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

Around the aforesaid time, the formed of “Mormon Wives” paused filming for Season 5 and, subsequently, the merchandise of a video of a abstracted quality successful 2023 led to the shelving of Season 22 of ABC’s “The Bachelorette,” which featured Paul arsenic its heroine. In the 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 the altercation, according to the transgression indictment. Police assemblage camera footage from that incidental was documented successful the archetypal play of “Mormon Wives.”

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

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

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

Last week brought much collateral harm to Disney’s world TV beingness with the quality that Mortensen’s storyline would beryllium edited retired of the caller play of “Vanderpump Villa,” which follows erstwhile Bravo prima Lisa Vanderpump and her unit astatine assorted luxury European estates. The 3rd play of “Mormon Wives” featured the fallout from an explosive crossover with “Vanderpump Villa” that resulted successful “Mormon Wives” stars Demi Engemann and Jessi Ngatikaura getting embroiled successful play with unit subordinate Marciano Brunette, who alleges helium had intimate connections with some women. The 4th play of “Mormon Wives” revisits the crossover, with immoderate of the 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, but present without Mortensen’s storyline. But helium isn’t wholly disconnected screens. Mortensen is acceptable to look successful “Unwell Winter Games,” a YouTube world contention bid produced by Alex Cooper, that premiered connected Monday.