Former reality TV star Joseph Duggar filed a court request on Monday, May 18, 2026, seeking permission to perform maintenance on several real estate properties located within 500 feet of his alleged victim's former residence in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
Legal documents obtained by Us Weekly show that the current no-contact order prevents Duggar from maintaining six properties he owns, including two vacant lots.
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His legal team argued that the alleged victim and her family have abandoned the residence, no longer living at the address listed in the order.
"The alleged victim and her family have abandoned their residence, no longer residing at the previously listed address," the filing stated.
The required maintenance tasks include interior painting, carpet installation, sheetrock repair, tile flooring replacement, mowing, and landscaping.
The defense emphasized that Duggar is not seeking contact with the alleged victim or to be within 500 feet of her, as she no longer lives at the property.
According to TMZ, Duggar was released on a $600,000 bond on March 31, with conditions barring contact with the alleged victim and unsupervised visits with minors under 18.
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On Sunday, May 17, Duggar separately requested permission to contact his four biological children with wife Kendra Duggar, whom he has not communicated with since March 31.
The legal documents clarified that the alleged child victim in the criminal case is not related to Duggar.
Duggar was arrested on March 18 on suspicion of lewd and lascivious behavior involving molestation of a victim under 12 and lewd behavior by a person 18 or older, stemming from a 2020 vacation incident in Florida.
He pleaded not guilty to the child molestation charges.
His wife Kendra was later charged with endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of second-degree false imprisonment, to which she also pleaded not guilty.
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She was released on March 20.
