Reality star Taylor Frankie Paul’s baby daddy Dakota Mortensen has been granted a temporary protective order against his ex and has reportedly gotten temporary custody of their child.
The order states that Taylor cannot have contact with Mortensen and is not allowed to “abuse or threaten to abuse” him. The “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” celeb has been ordered to stay at least 100 feet away from her ex and is forbidden from contacting him, per People.
Taylor will be able to plead her case at a scheduled hearing on April 7, and won’t be able to see her youngest child, Ever, prior to that point.
Dakota alleged that Taylor choked him during an incident on February 23, and attacked him again the next day, February 24.
“I was unable to safely leave while this was happening, and my child had been left inside the home during the chaos under her watch due to our custody agreement,” Dakota stated in documents obtained by TMZ.
The reality star was slated to be “The Bachelorette” beginning Sunday evening, but her season, which has already been filmed, was abruptly canceled when a video of her fighting with Dakota and throwing metal bar stools was leaked to TMZ earlier this week.
Taylor had already pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in 2023 immediately after the incident, but the video footage was not released until now.
TMZ also reported that an anonymous source said Taylor’s ex-husband, Tate Paul, had not seen the video before its release. Tate shares two children with Taylor, including the child in the video who was allegedly struck by the bar stool. A child can be heard crying in the video after the stool is thrown, and the police report from 2023 allegedly said the child had a goose egg on her head.
Taylor, meanwhile, claimed during an episode of “The Viall Files” podcast last year that her daughter didn’t have any injuries. She admitted that she was out of control on the evening in question.
“I was feeling so low I went and drank that night,” the reality star said on the podcast. “…and Dakota picks me up and he’s angry that I drank.”
Taylor said she was “so sad” at the time. “I remember, like, throwing things, and I don’t know my daughter is on the couch,” she went on. “We had babysitters there, so I think they’re upstairs sleeping.”
“I’m, like, so gone I don’t care, and I throw another chair,” she said, also telling the podcast host, “We didn’t know if it hit her or not, it might have not hit her at all…” Taylor also claimed the child had no “noticeable injuries” and insisted “everything was good.”
Tate and Taylor were married from 2016 until 2022. TMZ reported that Tate responded to the domestic incident in 2023 by having his lawyer seek full custody of the children, and that after meeting several demands including alcohol education classes, the reality star earned back shared custody about six months later.
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