Father of pop star Britney Spears asks to end conservatorship

The legal arrangement prevents the international superstar from managing her business and financial affairs.

The father of international pop star Britney Spears has asked a Los Angeles court to end a 13-year conservatorship that prohibits the singer from governing her own personal and business affairs. In a suprise development on Tuesday, Jamie Spears, who set up the court-sanctioned arrangement in 2008, said in a court filing that he believed the judge should “now seriously consider whether this conservatorship is no longer required”. The arrangement has been increasingly scrutinised as Britney Spears, 39, has sought for months to have her father removed as the overseer of her $60 million estate. She told the court in June the arrangement was “abusive, embarrassing and humiliating”, and included her being prohibited from removing an intra-uterine contraceptive device (IUD) to become pregnant.