Posted on 09/08/2021 9:26:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Celebrity singer Britney Spears may be finally free by her 40th birthday in December after her father, Jaime Spears, petitioned to end his daughter’s conservatorship Tuesday.
In the surprise move by her father, who has fought to keep Britney under guardianship for more than a decade, the petition to the Los Angeles Superior Court argues the pop star’s circumstances have changed to the point that the arrangement may be doing more harm than good.
“Recent events related to this conservatorship have called into question whether circumstances have changed to such an extent that grounds for establishment of a conservatorship may no longer exist,” the filing reads, according to CNN, which obtained a copy.
Ms. Spears has told this Court that she wants control of her life back without the safety rails of a conservatorship. She wants to be able to make decisions regarding her own medical care, deciding when, where and how often to get therapy. She wants to control the money she has made from her career and spend it without supervision or oversight. She wants to be able to get married and have a baby, if she so chooses. In short, she wants to live her life as she chooses without the constraints of a conservator or court proceeding.
Spears has remained under the conservatorship of her father in a temporary arrangement that turned permanent in 2008, affording her family control over a Forbes-estimated $60 million estate. Since then, Spears’s handlers have maintained not only control of the singer’s finances, but also Spears’s housing, health care, and social life under a legal arrangement typically reserved for those who suffer severely debilitating conditions, which include severe mental issues or old age.
From her conservatorship’s inception, however, Britney rejuvenated her career with four new albums, three world tours, and completion of a grueling four-year residency in Las Vegas.
In June, the princess of pop railed the conservatorship in a public rebuke of her handlers as “abusive.” She also charged them with barring her from another pregnancy in the form of a forced IUD.
“After I’ve lied and told the whole world I’m okay, and I’m happy, it’s a lie,” Britney said. “I’ve been in denial. I’ve been in shock. I am traumatized… I’m not happy, I can’t sleep. I’m so angry it’s insane, and I’m depressed. I cry every day.”
Weeks later, Britney’s court-appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham III, stepped down. The financial firm Bessemer Trust, which was appointed co-conservator to manage the singer’s estate last November, also petitioned to remove itself from the arrangement.
Britney sought to remove her father as a co-conservator but the judge denied her request in July.
According to the Department of Justice, 1.3 million adults are under conservatorships that dictate an estimated $50 billion in assets. Two top Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee demanded hearings on conservatorship reform in March, citing abuse of the system as an infringement on civil liberties.
The court hearing in Britney’s case is currently scheduled for Sept. 29.
I suspect her lawyers will go after the Dad for financial impropriety, and her lawyers will rip her off way more than her Dad might have.
Last I saw, she wants to marry him and have a baby
RE: As long as Spears gets rid of her creepy, money grabbing, brain dead boyfriend.
Who is it this time? I’ve lost count.
Train wreck ahead.
Good. Is a person not entitled to the sweat from their own brow? It’s her money, as a free person it is hers to do with as she wishes, even if that means she destroys herself.
I think so too.
And Nickelodeon has employed pedos to work with child stars in the past.
Praying Britney can find some peace.
Her boyfriend is scum
My Prediction: This doesn’t end well.
Brittany was Disney..... her sister was Nickelodeon
I think some people on FR need to get a life, its her money, plenty of people destroy themselves all the time and the government doesnt put them under the care of others why is she different? What cause she is some rich white woman /sarc?
As far as I’m concerned, the only reason this is of the slightest interest is because if they can so totally screw up someone’s life who has the resources that she does, they can do it to anyone.
# As with all child stars, I suspect something really bad happened to her when she was at Nickelodeon.
I figure that is a given. The entirety of hollywood is, quite literally satanic in every way imaginable.
Dan schneider.
Yes, that is the one.
Yeh, cause he’s afraid he’s going to the slam. 😆
Its supposed to be a free country. Why can’t Brittany be free to be as big of a moron as well, you. 😆
That was over four decades ago.
Next time Britney asks her father for help, he's staying out of it.
“Why can’t Brittany be free to be as big of a moron as well, you. 😆”
I didn’t preclude any moron-acting freedom by Brit or you.
Only offered notice to future Federline wannabes.
And inadvertently offered notice to the rest of us that you’re well, you. 😆
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