Britney Spears' conservatorship, explained
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The legal controversy surrounding Britney Spears is no secret. The pop star is fighting for changes to her court-appointed conservatorship, which has controlled her career and finances since 2008.
Last month, Britney, 39, publicly addressed the court for the first time, calling the conservatorship "abusive" while demanding an end to the arrangement. "I don't think I can live a full life," she said. "I feel ganged up on, I feel bullied and I feel alone." Britney has also pushed to remove her father, Jamie, from the conservatorship and has vowed to put her career on hold until that happens. Jamie currently acts as a co-conservator of her estate along with an outside financial group, the Bessemer Trust. But after Britney said she wanted out, the group filed a petition to remove itself from the arrangement.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
The knock at the door came at nighttime on Mother's Day 2008 in Oregon, where Jessica Ellis' parents lived. It was around 9:20 p.m. and his wife, Linda, was already in bed; her father Steve Ellis told CBS News, that he thought someone let their animals out — but two soldiers in Class A uniforms were standing at the door.