Britney Spears requested a judge to deny her mother’s request that the singer pay for more than $660,000 in legal fees incurred in the course of the pop star’s former conservatorship.
Britney Spears’ legal professional, Matthew Rosengart, objected to the request in a response filed prior to a Wednesday listening to, noting that Lynne Spears was a 3rd celebration to the conservatorship. The request from Lynne Spears, filed in November 2021, argued that she employed a legal crew “to assist Britney to break the restrictions imposed by the conservatorship.”
But Britney Spears, who has paid for legal fees for her father Jamie Spears all through the conservatorship, objects to her mom’s request. Rosengart asserted that there is no such thing as a legal foundation that requires a conservatee to pay for a third-party’s expense and it could be a harmful precedent to set.
Rosengart additionally states that Britney Spears has already spent almost $1.7 million for her mom to dwell “in a large, expensive house” in Kentwood, Louisiana, and associated repairs bills.
“The fees and costs at issue cannot be hoisted onto Britney Spears, who already has paid many millions for court-appointed counsel, counsel for the conservator of the estate, counsel for the conservator of the person, and others, all while very generously providing a beautiful home for her mother and paying for all associated expenses,” Rosengart mentioned in his objection.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny delayed ruling on the problem, saying more documentation was required earlier than she may grant the request, in accordance to a minute order reviewed by NBC News Thursday.
The petition is anticipated to be reviewed once more in July.
In 2008, Britney Spears was positioned in a conservatorship that was dissolved final 12 months after expressing to the court docket that she felt her father’s controlling affect over her life as a conservator was abusive.
Lynne Spears filed a collection of legal motions in 2019 requesting to be stored knowledgeable on developments pertaining to her daughter’s conservatorship.
Though she didn’t file to develop into both a private or monetary conservator, Lynne Spears’ petition mentioned that she assisted her daughter in interviewing new medical doctors and raised considerations with the court docket throughout what was described as a “crisis” level in the conservatorship.
Rosengart argued that forcing his consumer to pay for Lynne Spears’ attorneys would open the door to “mischief” for any “interested party” to search a conservatee to pay exorbitant legal fees that didn’t incur.
“If Britney Spears (now, at last, a free woman) were to voluntarily agree that Lynne Spears should receive an additional payment from her, that would be her choice,” Rosengart mentioned. “But the Petition is entirely unsupported by law or equity and must be rejected for these reasons alone.”