SALT LAKE CITY — Taylor Frankie Paul, a star of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives ” and a not too long ago scrubbed season of “The Bachelorette,” won’t be charged in latest fights together with her former companion, the Salt Lake County District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned Tuesday.

Police within the Salt Lake Metropolis suburbs of Draper Metropolis and West Jordan have been investigating claims of home violence in 2024 and this February from Paul’s ex-partner Dakota Mortensen, the daddy of her 2-year-old son. Paul has additionally made allegations towards Mortensen, however these weren’t addressed within the paperwork.

Any new expenses towards Paul would have violated her probation, which stemmed from a 2023 assault on Mortensen.

The pair has filed dueling petitions for protecting orders towards each other that would be the topic of an upcoming listening to.

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“A number of incidents that have been submitted don’t rise to the extent of prison offenses. The remaining incidents lack ample proof to help submitting prison expenses,” Breanne Miller, a lawyer within the district legal professional’s Household Safety Unit, wrote in a memo explaining that Paul wouldn’t be charged.

She famous that some reported incidents occurred greater than three years in the past and fell outdoors the authorized time-frame for overview.

The decline in expenses doesn’t have a direct impact on Mortensen’s protecting order towards Paul, which has been quickly granted and will develop into long-term at an April 30 listening to. However the lack of prosecution might assist Paul and her legal professionals make her case to a court docket commissioner who at an earlier listening to ordered that she might have visits together with her son provided that they have been supervised.

Eric Swinyard, a lawyer for Paul, argued at an April 7 listening to that Mortensen was the aggressor in a February combat that the lawyer known as “the truck tussle.”

Mortensen mentioned in his request for a protecting order that Paul threw a drink at him as they argued in a truck to not wake youngsters who have been sleeping inside Paul’s residence. However Swinyard mentioned Mortensen slammed Paul’s head into the dashboard and punched her within the leg, and offered photographs she took of her bruises.

A distinct combat between the couple in 2023 prompted ABC to make the unprecedented transfer of shelving an already-filmed season of “The Bachelorette” after video of the altercation leaked final month.

Within the video, Paul appeared to punch, kick and throw chairs at Mortensen whereas her younger daughter watched and cried. Paul was charged with aggravated assault and different offenses, together with home violence within the presence of a kid. She pleaded responsible to an assault cost, which shall be decreased from a felony to a misdemeanor if Paul stays out of authorized hassle for a three-year probationary interval that ends in August. The opposite counts have been dismissed.

Eleven fights between Paul and Mortensen have been underneath examination of their protecting order requests.

A court-appointed legal professional for his or her son, Ever, mentioned one other video from Might of final yr exhibits Paul pushing Mortensen and shouting at him to get out of her home whereas he’s holding the boy. The lawyer, Michael McDonald, mentioned on the April 7 listening to, “that makes me very nervous about her means to regulate herself.”

Paul’s legal professional mentioned Mortensen intentionally created the state of affairs by holding their little one as a “human defend.” Mortensen’s legal professional, Daniela Diaz, argued that Paul makes use of their son “as a pawn to start out fights.”

The couple’s fiery relationship was closely featured on “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” from its 2024 debut, and it was central to Paul turning into a actuality star. The sequence premiere featured police physique digital camera footage of her 2023 arrest.

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Dalton reported from Los Angeles.