{"id":616741,"date":"2026-05-01T06:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616741\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:36:09","slug":"judge-grants-protective-orders-to-taylor-frankie-paul-and-dakota-mortensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616741\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge grants protective orders to Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a hearing about competing protective order filings from reality TV star Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen<\/a>, a Utah judge granted Thursday that both orders go into effect, though he delayed making a decision on a custody arrangement.<\/p>\n

The orders, which were issued by third district court commissioner Russell Minas, are in place for three years and require Paul and Mortensen to stay at least 100 feet away from each other. He also warned that they both could be subjected to criminal charges if there\u2019s a violation of the orders. <\/p>\n

\u201cI do think it\u2019s important that there be mutual orders,\u201d Minas said. \u201cI am just concerned that if I don\u2019t order both of them to stay away from each other, there\u2019s going to be some additional problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing Paul and Mortensen, Minas said: \u201cI\u2019m hoping that you\u2019re not people who just thrive on the drama and the conflict … I do want to work with both of you to try to restore some sense of normalcy. I just think right now, you two need to stay away from each other and there needs to be orders that will result in consequences if you attempt to try to engage each other because I still think you have this attraction to each other, physical or otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives\u201d star, 31, and Mortensen, 33, both appeared in Utah court for the hearing, which was livestreamed, the first time they\u2019ve been seen in the same room together since news broke last month that they were involved in domestic violence investigations involving multiple allegations.<\/p>\n

In the weeks leading up to the ruling, the judge had granted Mortensen custody of <\/a>their son, with up to eight hours per week of supervised visitation for Paul, known as one of the stars of Hulu\u2019s \u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.\u201d That arrangement will stay in place until the judge offers his recommendation on parent time on or before May 11. <\/p>\n

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Dakota Mortensen in the courtroom on Thursday.<\/p>\n

(Bethany Baker \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

A review hearing is set for June, once mental health and domestic violence assessments of Paul and Mortensen ordered as part of the safety plan by child protective services have been completed and processed. <\/p>\n

Paul\u2019s attorney, Eric M. Swinyard, described the hearing as a \u201csignificant step forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTaylor was incredibly candid with the Court that she is not perfect and owned her faults,\u201d read part of his statement. \u201cShe looks forward to continuing to cooperate with the Court to make progress in the custody case.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Times also reached out to Mortensen for comment. <\/p>\n

Paul and Mortensen had been under investigation by both the Draper City Police Department and West Jordan Police Department regarding a series of allegations each made that the other had acted violently during altercations in February, as well as an incident that took place in 2024. After the February allegations made headlines, a video of Paul in 2023 that led to her arrest was leaked; it showed the reality star throwing bar stools at Mortensen while her daughter was present. (Paul pleaded guilty in abeyance to aggravated assault following that incident and her probation in that case will be up in August.) Amid the investigation, Mortensen and Paul filed competing protective orders against each other.<\/p>\n

The Salt Lake County district attorney\u2019s office and the Draper City prosecutor both declined to file charges against Paul in April, citing insufficient evidence to prove allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n

The situation between the embattled exes also resulted in the pausing of filming of \u201cMormon Wives\u201d Season 5. The show has documented the pair\u2019s tumultuous relationship since it\u2019s launch in 2024. It also led to the shelving of Season 22 of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe Bachelorette,\u201d which featured Paul as its heroine. <\/p>\n

But Thursday\u2019s ruling on the orders comes a week after reports surfaced that \u201cMormon Wives\u201d has resumed production on its fifth season<\/a>, without Paul and Mortensen\u2019s involvement \u2014 though, Paul reportedly has the option to return. The fate of the unaired season of \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d remains unclear.<\/p>\n

Alexandra Del Rosario contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a hearing about competing protective order filings from reality TV star Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex-boyfriend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64910,267628,88,24111,10072,15605,91033,267627,27534,4363,14861,267629,5190,1695,16597,1975],"class_list":["post-616741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-allegation","tag-domestic-violence-investigation","tag-entertainment","tag-hearing","tag-incident","tag-judge","tag-mormon-wives","tag-mortensen","tag-order","tag-paul","tag-place","tag-protective-order-filing","tag-season","tag-star","tag-thursday","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}