Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Britney Spears‘ father officially gives up his role as her conservator after 11 years

After a difficult year in which she‘s had to cancel a major tour and fight wild online conspiracy theories about her family, things don‘t look likely to settle down for beloved pop star Britney Spears.

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.

“I‘ve been looking forward to this show and seeing all of you this year, so doing this breaks my heart,” she wrote on Instagram. “However, it‘s important to always put your family first … and that‘s the decision I had to make.”

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