Britney Spears' father renounces legal guardianship of singer
Jamie Spears' attorney reports that his client intends to work with the court to ensure "an orderly transition to a new guardian."
After more than a year of court battles, Britney Spears' father announced Thursday that he will renounce legal guardianship of her daughter, although he has not set a date. Since 2008, Jamie Spears, along with a trust, has overseen by court decision the finances, the schedule and even the tiniest details of the 39-year-old pop star's life, after she suffered a nervous breakdown when she was in the public eye hurricane. "Your Honor, my father should be in jail," the singer said last June before the judge in a hearing in which she denounced the labor abuses to which she had been subjected and where she threatened to sue her family for what she has been subjected to. done.
The devastating testimony of Britney Spears offered during the summer set social networks on fire and mobilized the followers of the music star, who clamored for her father to free her from her. At first, Jamie Spears refused to abandon her position, but this Thursday her lawyer has presented before the Superior Court of Los Angeles the affirmative answer to the request of her daughter to end her guardianship. According to court documents, she will do so once "various pending issues in court" are resolved.
Jamie Spears's lawyer noted that "there are no real reasons to suspend or remove him," and has argued that the decision to resign "at the right time" has to do with settling the "public battle with her daughter." He added that he intends to work with the court and with the singer's new attorney, Mathew Rosengart, to prepare for an orderly transition "to a new guardian."
Jamie Spears, 68, charges $ 16,000 (more than 13,400 euros) a month for being the legal guardian of his daughter. “We are pleased that Mr. Spears and his attorney today admitted in a file that he should be dismissed. It is a vindication for Britney, "Rosengart said in a statement, in which he also criticized the constant attacks by Spears' father towards the singer. “We will continue to investigate Mr. Spears' conduct over the past 13 years, during which he reaped millions of dollars from his daughter's estate. I hope to take the affidavit from Mr. Spears in the near future, "added the attorney, making it clear that the legal actions against Jamie Spears are going to be carried out as the pop star had planned.
The announcement comes days after Judge Brenda Penny rejected a petition filed by the singer's attorney, Mathew Rosengart, to move a hearing from Sept. 29 on the case to Sept. 23 to expedite her father's impeachment process. . Jamie Spears had become the celebrity's exclusive guardian in 2019, after attorney Andrew Wallet resigned from joint guardianship. On June 24, Britney Spears stated in her statement before the judge: “Before, I thought nobody was going to believe me. That people would make fun of me. But now I want my life back. It has already been enough ”.
Among the demands imposed by her father, the singer was obliged to go to the psychiatrist three times a week. On one occasion, he forced her to enter a mental health center as punishment for complaining at a rehearsal, and on another he forced her to give a concert against her will when she had a fever, always according to the testimony of the artist. "I want to get married and have a baby," she said during the hearing, "but I have an IUD that prevents me from getting pregnant." Her statement implied that her legal custody prohibited her from having more children than the two she already has.
“Custody didn't make any sense from the start. I pay people to control me. I have worked since I was 17 years old and this custody is an abuse ”, concluded the singer.
