Britney Spears’ father loses custody of the singer at trial

Britney Spears’ fight to remove her father’s guardianship over her fortune continued on Thursday, when a judge rejected her father’s objections to how her guardianship would be delegated and made a breakthrough in negotiations.

Remember that Britney Spears filed a petition on yard last year for dismiss his father And placing a financial institution as the sole custodian of her assets, her lawyer, Samuel D. Ingham III, claimed last year that the singer feared James “Jamie” Spears and preferred a professional financial institution to take over her assets.

However, the judge from Los Angeles Superior Court, Brenda Penny, rejected the singer’s request last year, but appointed Bessemer Trust as co-curator with James Spears.

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The objections raised by the lawyer for James Spears, Vivian Thoreen, on how the co-curatorship will be delegated, were rejected on Thursday last year, as well as a high objection by Thoreen demanding that James Spears have the power to delegate investment powers, a problem that opened an almost endless debate between the two lawyers.

Ingham told the court that the nature of a conservative is that James Spears’ powers as sole conservative, appointed by the court in 2019, will be reduced, while Thoreen argued that the court’s orders should be in line with the order. granted him sole guardianship.

“There is no intention or desire to create unequal power or decision-making between the two, your honor,” Thoreen argued. “This is a way of doing it consistently and not taking the powers that Mr. Spears had as a curator,” they said.

Thoreen also denied Ingham’s concern that James Spears would delegate investment powers to a third party, saying his client simply wanted to “be able to delegate investment decision-making authority to Bessemer,” they continued.

The objection was rejected by the judge, and both James Spears and Bessemer Trust are expected to work together on a budget and investment proposal for the Britney Spears estate after Thursday’s hearing.

“My client is looking forward to working with Bessemer to pursue an investment strategy in her daughter’s best interests,” Thoreen said in a statement after the hearing.

“My client Jamie Spears has diligently and professionally performed the duties of one of Britney’s curators, and her love for her daughter and her dedication to protecting her are clearly evident in court,” the statement said.

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Although Jamie will continue as a legal guardian, he will have to continue to share all his decisions with the private fund Bessemer Trust, including on finance, an extreme that his father’s lawyers opposed and which was rejected by Judge Brenda Penny.

This decision is closer to the will of Spears, who this summer expressed his “strong opposition” to the fact that her father continues to exercise total control over his life.

On the other hand, “It’s no secret that my client doesn’t want his father to be a co-guardian, but we recognize that it’s a separate issue,” said the singer’s lawyer, Samuel Ingham, and Ingham reiterated that he would try to withdraw. father’s powers in future sessions, but on Thursday, which lasted only an hour, was summarized to decide who had control over the finances of the successful artist, a new hearing on curatorship is scheduled for next month.

The pop star’s legal battle is under new control following the New York Times ‘release of the film “Framing Britney”, a documentary that followed Britney Spears’ rise to stardom and the media pressure that is often blamed. Due to her public collapse in 2007, James Spears has been her legal guardian for 12 years.