{"id":1942366,"date":"2026-05-18T19:44:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1942366"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:44:50","slug":"joseph-duggar-asks-court-to-let-him-see-his-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1942366","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Duggar Asks Court To Let Him See His Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/34\/16by9\/2026\/05\/18\/341259d655ae447cbc727c28f9cea77e_xl.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"article article--permalink \">\n<header class=\"article__header\">\n<h1 class=\"article__header--headline-title\">Joseph Duggar Asks Court To Let Him See His Kids<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"article__header--headline-fragments\"><span class=\"article__header--hf1 text-uppercase h3\">Joseph Duggar<\/span><span class=\"article__header--hf2 text-uppercase h1\">Please, Judge, Let Me See My Kids!!!<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"social-media-container\" role=\"region\">\n<ul class=\"social social--sm\">\n<li class=\"social-item\">\n<li class=\"social-item\">\n<li class=\"social-item\"><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tmz.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"js-track-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/static.tmz.com\/tmz-web\/img\/article\/google-preferred-source.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/pages\/about\/\">TMZ Staff<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"date-wrapper\">\n                                                                        Published <time class=\"published-datetime\" datetime=\"2026-05-18T12:44:50-07:00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/sitemaps\/article\/202605\"><br \/>\n                May 18, 2026<br \/>\n                <\/a><br \/>\n                            12:44 PM PDT<\/time><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article__blocks 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image-block__media-credit\">TLC<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-a3d1de76d49112fc821c09c76bee0240\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context='{\"section\":\"permalink\",\"name\":\"text_block\"}'>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/joseph-duggar\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Joseph Duggar<\/strong><\/a> wants to see his kids, but there&#8217;s a problem &#8230; he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/03\/31\/joseph-duggar-makes-first-court-appearance\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>barred<\/strong><\/a> from having unsupervised contact with minors as a condition of his ongoing child molestation case &#8230; and now he&#8217;s trying to get that changed.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-a8ae333df54dbea4c5080fa64eee228e\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context='{\"section\":\"permalink\",\"name\":\"text_block\"}'>\n<p>The &#8220;19 Kids and Counting&#8221; star &#8212; one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/josh-duggar\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Josh Duggar<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s brothers &#8212; filed new legal docs asking the court to amend his no-contact order to allow contact with his own biological children &#8230; according to online court records.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-21ce02d4724fb85f74320a7b15f4daac\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-image-block--default  \">\n<div class=\"image-block\"><a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260429_cf42f55577134ea1b81c62a620c11039\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:79a274c1-21b7-48e2-8ee4-3a6929d2d96b\" data-context='{\"section\":\"permalink\",\"name\":\"image\"}'><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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