Joseph & Kendra Duggar Plead Not Guilty to Charges, Reunited with Children For the First time

A judge signed off on an order dissolving Kendra’s no-contact order on April 17, the same day that she and her husband Joseph Duggar also entered not guilty pleas to four counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of second-degree false imprisonment, in entry of appearance motions obtained by PEOPLE.

Joseph, meanwhile, is still not allowed any unsupervised contact with his four children as a condition of his pretrial release in an unrelated case in Florida, where he is charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim less than 12 years old and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 years or older, to which he has pleaded not guilty. Kendra and Joseph, who were due to appear in court on April 29, will now make their first court appearance on Aug. 10 in Arkansas.

Travis Story, the lawyer for both Kendra and Joseph, writes in the motion to dissolve the no-contact order that Kendra has been prohibited from seeing her children since March 20, the same day as she was arrested and booked into the Washington County Detention Center.

He then gives reasons why the no contact order should be lifted, saying: “the alleged victims have expressed a desire to have contact with [Kendra],” that “[Kendra] has complied with all terms of the no contact order and has not committed any violations,” and that the “continued enforcement of the no contact order is preventing evaluations by qualified third-party agencies that are necessary to resolution of the case and to ensure the ongoing safety and well-being of the protected parties.”

A district court judge issued an order dissolving the no-contact order on the same day that Kendra’s attorney filed the request and instructed the Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS) to “supervise, communicate and facilitate reunification between [Kendra] and [the children].”

Kendra and Joseph were ordered not to contact their children following a search of their home on March 19 by the Tontitown Police Department and ADHS. Those agencies conducted the search one day after Joseph’s arrest on in Florida on the child sex abuse charges.

On March 20, officials in Arkansas filed additional charges against Joseph and new charges against his wife following that search and an independent investigation. The charges are unrelated to the child sex abuse charges. “I can tell you the arrest was a result of a home inspection, and the door locks being on the exterior of the doors,” a source close to the family previously told PEOPLE about the charges.

Kendra was arrested and booked into the same facility as her husband, but only briefly, because she was able to post bail a few hours after being booked on the charges.

Joseph then appeared in a Florida courtroom on March 31, where he entered a plea of not guilty and his bond was set at $600,000. He is separately accused of sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl multiple times during a family vacation to Panama City Beach in 2020.

There were two conditions of Joseph’s pretrial release: that he have no contact with his accuser, who is now 14, as well as “no unsupervised contact with any minors under the age of 18,” per the judge. That includes Joseph’s four young children, as well as his two youngest siblings. “No unsupervised contact with any minors under 18,” reads a handwritten note on the court filing on Joseph’s release.

Joseph and Kendra’s attorney did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.