Feeling good. Britney Spears’ mother, Lynne Spears, is proud of Jamie Spears’ current submitting to finally transition out of his conservator function.
“Lynne Spears is happy Jamie has agreed to step down,” the 66-year-old’s legal professional, Gladstone N Jones III, advised Us Weekly in an announcement on Thursday, August 12. “Lynne entered into this conservatorship to guard her daughter nearly three years in the past. She has achieved what she got down to do. She can have no additional remark.”
Jamie, 69, filed paperwork on Thursday saying that he isn’t against stepping down from his function as conservator of Britney’s property following a transition. Within the courtroom docs obtained by Us, Jamie requested {that a} decide deny his 39-year-old daughter’s earlier petition to droop and take away him as her co-conservator.
Lynne Spears and Jamie Spears. Shutterstock (2)
He additionally acknowledged that he “intends to work with the courtroom and his daughter’s new legal professional to organize for an orderly transition to a brand new conservator.” The docs famous that Jamie “doesn’t consider a public battle along with his daughter over his persevering with service as her conservator can be in her greatest pursuits.”
The submitting continued: “Mr. Spears is keen to step down when the time is correct, however the transition must be orderly and embody a decision of issues pending earlier than the Court docket.”
After briefly stepping again from his function as Britney’s sole conservator in September 2019 amid well being issues — which is when Britney’s well being supervisor, Jodi Montgomery, assumed the function — Jamie returned as co-conservator for his daughter’s property. Montgomery stayed on because the conservator of the singer’s particular person.
The next yr, Britney requested that her father be completely booted from his function. She then spoke out about her remedy below the conservatorship, which has been in place since 2008, throughout a listening to earlier this yr.
“My dad and anybody concerned on this conservatorship and my administration who performed a key function in punishing me — they need to be in jail,” Britney mentioned in June, noting that she has been “making an attempt to be so good and fairly” for her father who “works me so laborious” with none repercussions.
Throughout a break within the June listening to, Jamie’s legal professional, Vivian Thoreen, learn an announcement on his behalf. “He’s sorry to see his daughter struggling in a lot ache,” the assertion learn.
Final month, Britney’s new legal professional, Mathew Rosengart, filed paperwork requesting that CPA Jason Rubin substitute Jamie to supervise the musician’s funds.
Montgomery filed her personal paperwork the identical month, stating that each she and Britney’s well being group supported Jamie’s elimination and Rubin stepping in as the brand new conservator.
“Ms. Montgomery respectfully notes that Ms. Spears’s medical group agrees that it’s not in the most effective curiosity of the Conservatee for Mr. Spears to be and stay Conservator of the Property,” the paperwork learn. “Ms. Montgomery believes in good religion that Ms. Spears’s greatest pursuits are served by granting the Removing Petition and eradicating Mr. Spears and changing him as Conservator of the Property with Mr. Rubin as requested within the Appointment Petition.”
Lynne seemingly backed her daughter’s resolution to have a brand new particular person in her father’s years-long function in a declaration obtained by Us in July.
“I turned concerned on this conservatorship as a result of I wished to make sure that the whole lot in my daughter’s life was dealt with in the most effective pursuits of my daughter the conservatee, which I didn’t consider on the time (and I nonetheless don’t at this time) to be the case,” Lynne wrote within the paperwork, arguing that her ex-husband has tried to keep up “absolute management” over Britney’s life for the previous 13 years.
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