Will the Britney Spears Conservatorship End Today?
The New York Times
A hearing in Los Angeles probate court on Friday could mark the final chapter of a 13-year saga for the singer. Here’s what is at stake.
Britney Spears has made no secret of late how she feels about the court-approved conservatorship that oversees her life: She wants it gone. In a complete turnaround, the pop singer’s father — long the official steward of the legal arrangement, often over her objections in public and private — has come to agree.
Now, after many months of back and forth, the fate of the conservatorship that has overseen Ms. Spears and her fortune since 2008 rests solely in the hands of a probate judge in Los Angeles Superior Court, where a hearing on Friday may mark the end — or at least the beginning of the end — in a 13-year saga.
“The time has come for Ms. Spears’s freedom,” the singer’s lawyer, Mathew S. Rosengart, wrote in a court filing late last month, emphasizing her desire to end the unique legal arrangement right away.
