On Wednesday, Britney Spears request to remove her father, Jamie Spears, as sole conservator was dismissed – after a Los Angeles court made no immediate changes to her 12-year court-appointed conservatorship.
Spears, now 38, had asked for her longtime care manager, Jodi Montgomery, to permanently replace her father Jamie as her conservator, however the hearing extended the current arrangements until February 2021. Jamie Spears was appointed conservator in 2008 after the pop star was hospitalized for psychiatric treatment. The singer’s care manager Jodi Montgomery took over in a temporary capacity late last year when Jamie Spears suffered a bout of ill health.
A lawyer for Spears had submitted documents ahead of the private hearing saying Spears was “strongly opposed” to having her father return to control her affairs. Spears pulled out of a Las Vegas concert residency last year and briefly entered a mental health facility, and has not performed publicly since October 2018.
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