Judge orders Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota | TV Shows

Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen have been legally ordered to keep away from each other for three years.

The stars of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives have been in court on Thursday, April 30, after submitting restraining orders against one another following back-and-forth allegations of home violence. The 31-year-old TikTok star and her 33-year-old ex-boyfriend share a two-year-old son, Ever.

The choose handed down the ruling after a 90-minute listening to, extending both protecting orders to three years, during which the exes will likely be barred from contacting or coming within 100 toes of each other.

If Taylor and Dakota fail to abide by the circumstances of the court order, “an arrest can be made, and charges can be filed.”

When it comes to their son, the exes may have to wait until May 11 for the choose to make modifications to their current custody settlement, which incorporates eight hours of supervised visits a week for Taylor.

Before handing down the ruling, the choose remarked on Taylor and Dakota’s unstable relationship. “You have to figure out how to function as co-parents. You’re linked together for the remainder of your lives. You’re modeling how you deal with conflict to a two-year-old. This is going to affect the child. This is a legacy of violence from generation to generation.”

The choose went on to chastise Dakota for recording their explosive altercations for “evidence” and accused him of “manipulating” Taylor, whose habits he categorized as “reactive.”

Taylor was set to seem on the Bachelorette franchise, but the show announced it might be pulled from the air on March 19, 2026, just three days before its scheduled premiere.

The extremely anticipated season was canned after an explosive video from the night time Taylor was arrested in February 2023, which reveals Taylor hitting Dakota before hurling a steel stool across the room. During the incident, which was featured in the pilot episode of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Taylor’s younger daughter was allegedly struck with one of the chairs thrown.

The video’s release got here the same day Dakota filed a protecting order against Taylor on the day of their son’s second birthday.

Before an April 7 listening to, Taylor also filed a protecting order against Dakota with new allegations of home violence. Filming for Season 5 of the favored Hulu collection was halted amid Taylor and Dakota’s ongoing legal battle and regarding habits.

Taylor and Dakota will return to court on June 1.