Joseph Duggar Has Not Communicated With Kids in 2 Months, Can&x27;t Visit His Properties Due To Proximity to Accuser: Court Docs Chris SpargoThu, May 21, 2026 at 10:01 PM UTC 0 Joseph DuggarCredit: Washington County Sheriff's Department Joseph Duggar has filed two motions seeking modifications to the no contact order issued by the judge who granted his pretrial release One of those motions states that Joseph has "been unable to communicate with his own biological children" since he made his initial court appearance in Florida on March 31 Joseph revealed in jail phone calls obtained by PEOPLE t...
Joseph Duggar Has Not Communicated With Kids in 2 Months, Can't Visit His Properties Due To Proximity to Accuser: Court Docs
Chris SpargoThu, May 21, 2026 at 10:01 PM UTC
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Joseph Duggar has filed two motions seeking modifications to the no contact order issued by the judge who granted his pretrial release
One of those motions states that Joseph has "been unable to communicate with his own biological children" since he made his initial court appearance in Florida on March 31
Joseph revealed in jail phone calls obtained by PEOPLE that he had also been unable to contact his children in the weeks before that following his arrest in Arkansas on March 18
Joseph Duggar is seeking a second modification to the no contact order issued by a Florida judge as part of the conditions of his pretrial release.
A motion filed by his attorney Albert J Sauline III and obtained by PEOPLE seeks to amend a provision of the order than bans Joseph from visiting a number of land parcels that he owns due to their proximity to the home where his alleged victim resides with her family.
Joseph is seeking this modification because the alleged victim and her family "have abandoned their residence, no longer residing at the previously listed address," according to the motion.
This comes on the heels of a motion filed by Joseph earlier this week that revealed he has not been able to communicate with his four children for almost two months.
Joseph and Kendra Duggar
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The no contact order prohibits Joseph from visiting six of his properties, the motion states, rendering him unable to perform tasks including: mowing, landscaping, painting, repairs and removing an "old dilapidated shed and its contents."
This is now the second motion filed this week that seeks to change the conditions of Joseph's no contact order, and Sauline tells PEOPLE that both are set to be argued in court on June 20.
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The first motion sought to modify the provision which bans Joseph from having any unsupervised contact with children under 18, asking for an exemption to be made for his own children.
The motion states that Joseph has "been unable to communicate with his own biological children" since he made his initial court appearance in Florida on March 31.
He had been unable to communicate with the children prior to that, too, when he and his wife Kendra Duggar were arrested on unrelated charges in Arkansas.
Kendra was able to reunite with the children in mid-April but the current order "is creating a hardship for the family unit," the motion says.
Joseph is facing two charges of lewd and lascivious behavior in Florida and is out of jail on a $600,000 bond. He and Kendra are also charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor in the second degree and four counts of false imprisonment in the second degree in Arkansas.
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Published: May 21, 2026 at 06:37PM on Source: PRIME TIME
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