Britney Spears FREE from 13-year Conservatorship, judge rules
The 39-year-old pop star has been legally stripped of her ability
to make her own financial and personal decisions for the past 13 years
by NBC News
Britney Spears is free from her conservatorship (summary of the story below) after a judge ruled in favor of termination Friday, ending the 13-year arrangement that has legally stripped the pop star from making her own personal and financial decisions.
“The court finds the conservatorship of Britney Jean Spears is no longer required,” Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny ruled. Effective today, the conservatorship for Britney Spears’ person and estate are terminated.
The entire hearing took just 31 minutes. Britney Spears herself did not make a phone or video appearance. Her attorney Mathew Rosengart cited her statements from her previous June hearing, in which she requested to terminate the conservatorship without a mental health evaluation.
Speaking outside the courthouse on Friday, Rosengart addressed Britney Spears’ future. “What’s next for Britney, and this is the first time this could be said for about a decade, is up to one person: Britney,” Rosengart said. “I will say that Britney has been put into a position through our collaboration and the work of our law firm to succeed … As of today, Britney is a free woman, she’s an independent woman.”
Britney Spears tweeted a video from the celebration outside the courthouse, writing, “Good God I love my fans so much it’s crazy.”
John Zabel, who was appointed temporary co-conservator of Britney Spears’ estate in following her father’s suspension, will retain administrative powers to assist in the transfer process. He will be allowed to execute estate planning documents and the transfer of assets. No parties objected to his continued role. A hearing scheduled for Jan. 18 will finalize the transfer of assets and any other pending financial items.
The star’s case has been put under intense scrutiny in recent years as fans launched a #FreeBritney campaign to end the conservatorship. Those who started the movement have expressed concerns that Jamie Spears has abused what was meant to be a temporary arrangement for his own personal gain. Britney Spears’ life and legal battles have continued to make national headlines and have been the subject of multiple documentaries this year.
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THE STORY OF THE PERSECUTION TO BRITNEY
On February 16, 2007, Britney Spears entered a rehabilitation clinic in Antigua, Caribbean, where she spent less than twenty-four hours. The following night she went to a hairdresser in Los Angeles and, according to some witnesses, after the hairdresser’s refusal of her request to shave her head, Britney took an electric razor and made the gesture alone. The episode had a significant media coverage worldwide, so much so that it ended up on the front pages of the most popular newspapers, magazines and gossip sites. In the following weeks, she spontaneously admitted herself to another rehabilitation clinic. After completing the rehabilitation program at Promises Clinic, she wrote on her website about her: “I really hit rock bottom. Now I don’t think my problem was alcohol or depression. […] I was like a child with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome) running around “.
In October 2007, Spears lost custody of her children. The reasons for the judge’s ruling were never revealed to the public. On January 3, 2008, Britney locked herself in her bathroom with her two children, refusing to give them back to her ex-husband’s legal representatives. She was then transported by ambulance and admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after police arriving at her home noticed that she appeared to be under the influence of drugs. The following day, she was deprived of her rights to visit her children and Kevin Federline obtained full custody. At the end of the month, she was transferred to the psychiatric ward of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with code 5150 – Compulsory Health Treatment (TSO). The pop star was discharged on February 6, 2008. Her judges entrusted her father Jamie Spears and Attorney Andrew Wallet as guardians, giving them complete control of her assets.
In July 2008, Spears reached an agreement with Federline and regained joint custody of her children. In the following months she recovered completely.In early 2015, after seven years, she regained full custody of her children.
In November 2018, Britney’s father was operated on following a near-fatal gastrointestinal perforation. The situation prompted the singer to cancel her scheduled show in Las Vegas Britney: Domination and to take an “indefinite hiatus” in the following month of January. In March 2019, Attorney Andrew Wallet took leave of Britney’s co-legal guardian role after eleven years. In April, news broke that Britney had presented herself to a mental health clinic to be hospitalized because she was “devastated” by her father’s illness. On April 24, 2019, the singer announced that she had recovered and two days later she was discharged from the clinic.
During the same period, through a podcast by some fans of the singer who went viral on the Internet, numerous speculations emerged that Spears was forced by her father and legal guardian Jamie to be admitted to the health clinic for refusing medicines. which she is called to hire against her will and for having driven her car without her father’s consent. By virtue of this, fans have begun to give rise to numerous protests against the alleged abusive protection to which the singer would be subjected by establishing the #FreeBritney movement, [209] which has received the support of celebrities including Miley Cyrus, Cher, L friend of Britney Paris Hilton and the American Civil Liberties Union. In September 2019, Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline obtained a restraining order against Jamie accusing him of physically assaulting one of his two sons; for this reason, singer Jodi Montgomery’s personal assistant temporarily replaced Jamie as guardian. by Britney. (source Wikipedia)
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