Taylor Frankie Paul Will Be at a ‘Disadvantage’ in Protective Order Hearing, Says Attorney
On April 30, Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen will go to court for a protective order hearing. The former couple filed competing protective orders against each other. At the upcoming hearing, a judge will make a ruling on their current custody agreement for their son and determine whether Paul or Mortensen will face criminal charges. An attorney shared why she thinks Paul will be at a disadvantage at the hearing.
Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen will go to court for a protective order hearing
On March 19, Mortensen filed for a protective order against Paul. His filing came shortly after news broke that they’d both accused one another of domestic violence following separate incidents in February. Footage of Paul attacking Mortensen in 2023 also leaked shortly beforehand.
On April 7, Paul filed for a protective order against Mortensen. She claimed he was trying to sabotage her career with his protective order. She also accused him of domestic violence.
During the April 7 hearing, Commissioner Russell Minas, who is overseeing the case, kept their son, Ever, in Mortensen’s custody. Paul received eight hours of supervised visitation a week. The judge will review this arrangement during their April 30 hearing.
A lawyer shared why Taylor Frankie Paul could be at a disadvantage in her upcoming hearing
Both Paul and Mortensen have accused each other of domestic violence. Holly Davis of family law firm Kirker Davis believes that Paul is the one at a disadvantage going into the hearing, though.
“When your behavior and choices parenting your child lead you to lose custody of your child, then you are placed at a disadvantage in your case moving forward,” she said. “Taylor Frankie Paul will need to prove and show to the Court that in the future she will be able to safely parent her child in moments of anger. The way that a Court typically ensures this is to see how she handles her anger, follows court orders, or rehabilitates her issues while the custody case is unfolding.”
Davis said that for the best outcome, Paul’s lawyers should focus on showing the ways she has grown.
“Paul’s lawyers need to take the ‘Phoenix Rising Out of the Ashes’ defense approach, which is something I’ve termed to describe giving your client an improvement process to follow with attainable objective markers to hit over a sustained period of time, and if they do it successfully and bet on themselves and show that they’ve changed, they deserve to regain custody of their child with some safeguards in place to ensure it doesn’t happen again in the future.”
She recently took a break from social media
Paul rose to fame on social media. Amid her recent drama, though, she has deactivated her accounts. She also took a step back from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
“Taylor is taking a breather,” a source told People. “It’s been a lot last couple months to consume and will be back shortly to continue sharing her story. She’ll decide when the time is right to return to filming on Secret Lives.”
Just days before this, she said she had no plans to get off social media.
