Joseph Duggar is requesting to handle upkeep on a series of properties he owns, and he needs the judge to sign off on allowing him to be within 500 feet of his alleged victim’s home in order to do so.
Court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Wednesday, May 20, show that Duggar, 31, asked to maintain his real estate properties on various parcels of land within that proximity.
“The alleged victim and her family have abandoned their residence, no longer residing at the previously listed address,” his legal team noted, per the docs filed on Monday, May 18.
Duggar listed six properties based in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, two of which are vacant, along with a to-do list for each address. The Counting On alum — who shares four minor children with wife Kendra Duggar — said he needs to complete interior painting, carpet installation, sheetrock repair, tile flooring replacement, mowing, landscaping and more work.
It was noted that the current no contact order “is causing issues” with him being able to maintain the properties. “The Defendant is not requesting contact with the alleged victim, nor to be within 500 feet of the alleged victim, as the alleged victim abandoned the property previously listed as the alleged victim’s residence,” according to the docs. TMZ was first to report the news.
Joseph was released on a $600,000 bond on March 31, under the condition that he is not to have contact with the alleged victim or have any unsupervised visits with minors under the age of 18, including his four kids.
Earlier this week, Us exclusively reported that he filed to amend his no contact order on Sunday, May 17, pleading that he be allowed to have contact with his “own biological children,” whom he “has been unable to communicate with” since March 31. The docs clarified that the “alleged child victim in this matter is not a child of the Defendant.”
The former reality TV star was arrested on March 18 on suspicion of lewd and lascivious behavior involving molestation of a victim less than 12 years old and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 years or older.
A now-14-year-old girl alleged that he molested her during a 2020 vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida, when she was nine. Joseph later pleaded not guilty to child molestation following his arrest.
Days after Joseph’s arrest, both he and Kendra, 27, were charged with endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of second-degree false imprisonment. (Both entered not guilty pleas.) At the time, sources informed Us that Kendra’s arrest had “nothing to do” with her spouse’s child sex abuse case in Florida. She was released from the Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas on March 20.
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