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BRITNEY SPEARS HAS asked a Los Angeles court to permanently end her father’s control over her personal affairs that he has had for the past 12 years, US media reports.
The petition, filed by her lawyer Samuel D Ingham III, in Los Angeles Superior Court request that Jamie Spears be permanently replaced with Jodi Montgomery, according to court papers seen by CNN.
Britney, 39, has lived under the conservatorship since 2008, a legal guardianship dictating the course of her life and finances that’s largely been steered by her father Jamie until 2019, when he temporarily stepped aside, citing health problems – Montgomery has served as temporary conservator of her person ever since.
James Spears has kept his separate role as conservator over his daughter’s finances
Spears filed last year to remove her father from the conservatorship and give sole power over her estate to a financial institution. Her court-appointed lawyer said at the time she’s “afraid” of her father.
The papers filed this week ask that Montgomery oversees Britney’s medical decisions and that she be able to “restrict and limit visitors by any means,” except the singer’s lawyers.
Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline has custody of their sons, but she has frequent visits with them.
The documentary Framing Britney Spears triggered renewed scrutiny of the conservatorship and the vitriol both the media and entertainment industry aimed at Spears, who soared to global fame before publicly suffering a mental health crisis and becoming a paparazzi punching bag in the mid-to-late 2000s.
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Well done on completing the film. Will seek it out.
The unfortunate thing is, politicians only pretend to care what people think at one time. Election time. The rest of the time, people are an annoyance to be kept at a distance. They have police keeping the public well away from the public servants and a media to keep them dumb. No amount of protest was going to stop that, or any other war. As long as there’s profit to be made, the march of war will continue.
It didn’t make a blind bit of difference which shows that it is a mirage of democKracy that those who we ‘elect’ to be in charge or ‘represent’ our view are not in charge at all. It is the military-industrial might that is and it doesn’t give a tinker’s curse about civilisation.
That was the first protest I took any of my children. It felt like a special day. If it didn’t stop the war, it did help people understand that public mobilisation in large scale is possible, and it helped unmask the true interests of politicians, which are not the same as the public’s.
It’s people like this that allow groups like ISIS or Al Qaeda to grow with their attitudes of appeasement.
More like a continuous cosying up to the wrong type of dictator, interfering in internal conflict and arming the wrong sides, making ‘Hitlers’ out of local bullies and waging illegitimate wars and continuously bombing a region for it’s natural resources facilitates organisations like ISIS or Al Qaeda to warp alienated and confused people into committing atrocities.
Anti-War = Pro-ISIS ?? Good one Darryl..
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