Britney‘s father, Jamie Spears, has temporarily stepped
down as her legal conservator, after spending 11 years with wide-ranging
legal powers over the pop star‘s life and career.
The move came after Jamie was accused of physically
assaulting one of Britney‘s teenage sons, Sean. According to reports,
after the incident, Britney‘s two sons sought restraining orders against
Jamie, reports.
In another shocking twist, Britney‘s psychiatrist and
doctor, Dr Timothy Benson, recently died after reportedly suffering a
brain aneurysm. Dr Benson was due to present evidence to the court
regarding Britney‘s care while under Jamie‘s conservatorship.
Britney‘s newly appointed temporary conservator, Jodi
Montgomery, has been granted similar, wide reaching powers to look after
the 37-year-old singer, and her affairs, until January 31, 2020,
according to ET.
The conservatorship was put in place after Britney was
involved in a string of high profile and highly publicised incidents
from 2006 to 2008.
These included her shaving her head, being photographed in
unflattering circumstances at a patrol station and, attacking a car with
an umbrella.
At the same time, Britney was hotly pursued by paparazzi,
and was a new mother. At the beginning of 2008, she entered into a
custody battle with the father of her children, ex-husband Kevin
Federline.
That same month, Britney was involuntary put into
psychiatric care. By February, after almost two years of highly
publicised public meltdowns, Britney‘s father Jamie was granted the
temporary conservatorship of his daughter. Six months later, this
conservatorship was made permanent, according to Fox Business.
A conservatorship is a status used in the US legal system,
where an individual is considered to be legally under the care of
another person, who is sometimes referred to as their “guardian”.
It is put in place where a person is suffering from
conditions that place limitations on their ability to care for
themselves. The person might be suffering from a mental condition that
in some way makes them unable to make decisions over some, or all parts
of their lives.
While Britney‘s conservatorship has been in place since
2008, in May of this year, Britney met with a judge to discuss issues to
do with the conservatorship. The judge ruled the conservatorship needed
to be evaluated.
NEW CONSERVATOR APPROVED BY JUDGE IN LA
While the evaluation continues, Ms Montgomery, who has
worked with Britney for the past 12 months as her care manager, has been
granted the role of Britney‘s new conservator.
According to court documents obtained by Billboard, Ms
Montgomery is “an experienced professional fiduciary with ability,
experience, and support resources, to take on these obligations during
this time and has been the care manager for Spears for approximately a
year”.
A Los Angeles judge approved the change on Monday.
If the court does find that Jamie‘s care of Britney was
wanting, it‘s likely Lynne Spears, Britney‘s mother, or Kevin Federline,
her ex-husband, will challenge the conservatorship that lasted more
than a decade.
The issue has become so heated it has recently been at the
centre of an online conspiracy, buffeted by the hashtag #freebritney.
In that case, it‘s likely Britney‘s father will be permanently removed from his role as the pop star‘s guardian.
It‘s worth remembering, before Britney sensationally
cancelled her Britney: Domination Vegas residency in January, her
conservatorship had largely been viewed as a handshake agreement between
her and her father.
Despite being under the binding agreement, Britney had continued to tour, release music and make perfumes.
But Britney‘s Instagram post in January, announcing the
cancellation of her upcoming residency in Vegas shocked many, and
started a wave of fan‘s theorising wildly about Britney‘s personal
freedom.
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