New Twist in Britney Spears' Case
Papers filed in New York Ask to Remove Conservatorship
Court documents allege Spears' denied the right to finances, friends and privacy.
The Associate Press is reporting that an L.A. court has extended the conservatorship of Britney Spears. The pop singer’s father and a lawyer have been given access to money in her trust to cover her needs.
Jamie Spears' temporary control over his daughter's life and estate will continue at least until a hearing on March 10, Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz said. At that time, she said, a court-appointed attorney also must submit an evaluation of Britney Spears' medical and psychological condition.
On the East Coast, Spears' legal situation just keeps getting more and more twisted. Court documents filed by a New York lawyer in Federal Court and obtained by TMZ.com ask that Britney's conservatorship case be taken away from L.A. County Superior Court.
Britney Denied Finances, Privacy, Friends
Attorney John Eardley says Spears’ life is no longer her own. “Ms Spears has been denied the right to associate freely with her friends. She has been denied the right to make or receive telephone calls… She has been denied the right to receive or send mail.
“She has been denied the right to her finances; she is not allowed to access her money or her credit cards.”
Eardley goes on to bemoan the fact that Spears’ has no privacy in her life saying “Numerous scientific tudies have shown the direct relationship between the lack of privacy and actual physical illness. Ms Spears may be the most public person who has ever lived.”
Eardley also writes about Spears’ children and the custody battle with her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, "It is doubtful that Ms. Spears can receive equal protection and a fair trial or hearing in the custody proceedings because of the intense media scrutiny of what would normally be private aspects of a person's life."
Nowhere in the documents does Eardley state the name of his client i.e. who he represents in this filing.
Bryan Spears Named as Trustee of Brit Brit's Trust
Also today, TMZ reports that “A judge has granted a request to have Britney's older brother, Bryan, be named as the trustee of his sister's trust.” According to documents, Britney is the sole trustee of the trust. But, according to the trust, "an individual Trustee shall cease to act as Trustee hereunder if he or she is under a legal disability or if by reason of illness or mental or physical disability, in the written opinion of two doctors then practicing medicine, he or she is unable to manage his or her affairs."
In other news, Spears’ estranged mother, Lynne Spears, was photographed at LAX catching a flight back to her home state of Louisiana. Her former husband is in Los Angeles attempting to look after Britney while Lynne has turned her attention to her pregnant teen daughter, Jamie Lynn (of Zoey 101 fame and fortune), at the family home in Kentwood.
