Britney Spears’s conservatorship battle continues. Based on Selection, new court docket paperwork filed on Wednesday revealed LA Choose Brenda Penny denied the 39-year-old singer’s request to take away her father, Jamie Spears, as her co-conservator. Britney’s lawyer, Samuel Ingham III, filed the request on her behalf again in November 2020. At the moment, Samuel expressed on Britney’s behalf that she was “afraid of her father” and would not carry out once more along with his involvement. Regardless of listening to Britney’s explosive court docket testimony final week, the decide determined Jamie would retain his cost over her profession.
Britney has been underneath the conservatorship of her father, Jamie, since 2008, with Jodi Montgomery, a licensed conservator, stepping in as a co-conservator in 2019. Throughout her court docket listening to on June 23, Britney shared harrowing particulars of the abuse she has suffered underneath the conservatorship, together with being compelled to go on tour and take treatment, in addition to not with the ability to get married and have any extra kids. “It is not OK to pressure me to do something I do not need to do . . . I really consider this conservatorship is abusive. I do not really feel like I can stay a full life,” Britney stated. “It is my want and my dream for this to finish.”
Each Jodi and Jamie have since responded to Britney’s surprising testimony via statements from their respective attorneys, primarily shifting the blame onto one another. Along with requesting an investigation, Jamie is claiming that Jodi is answerable for Britney’s “difficulties and struggling.” “Ms. Spears informed the Court docket on June 23 that she opposed being underneath a conservatorship and revealed her ongoing disputes with Ms. Montgomery about her medical therapy and different private care points,” learn the submitting from Jamie’s lawyer, Vivian Lee Thoreen. “These statements contradict the notion that Ms. Spears would search to have Ms. Montgomery appointed as her everlasting Conservator of the Individual.”
In the meantime, Jodi is saying that she has been a “tireless advocate” for Britney and that Jamie has been the one in control of approving all expenditures because the controller of her property. “Virtually talking, since all the things prices cash, no expenditures can occur with out going via Mr. Spears and Mr. Spears approving them,” Jodi’s assertion learn. “Ms. Montgomery has advocated on Britney’s behalf for any expenditures that Britney has requested in addition to for expenditures advisable by Britney’s medical staff.”
