Overview
- A Los Angeles judge granted the domestic violence temporary restraining order on Aug. 27, 2026, requiring Jax Taylor to stay at least 100 yards from Brittany Cartwright, her home, her car and their son’s school.
- Cartwright’s court declaration alleges a decade-long pattern of coercive control, emotional and financial abuse, physical attacks, threats to kill and a threat to “gut [her] like a fish,” and she submitted photos, transcripts and message screenshots to support the petition.
- The judge denied Cartwright’s immediate request for sole custody but halted Taylor’s visitation until the Sept. 17 hearing when the court will consider whether the protective order should continue and how custody should proceed.
- Taylor publicly acknowledged past substance-use and mental-health treatment and said he disputes some allegations, while his attorney has called the filing an effort to “weaponize the internet” and said Taylor will present countervailing evidence in court.
- The filings are civil family-court actions that have already drawn heavy media attention because both parties are reality-TV figures, and the next weeks will focus on evidence exchange, witness testimony and how the court weighs the submitted exhibits for Cruz’s safety and custody.