Celebrity Justice
No Changes So Far in Brit Case

Britney SpearsThe custody hearing is over, and the status quo prevails.

There was supposed to be a hearing today on the motion by Brit to get "visitation in a therapeutic setting." That motion was put off, because the therapeutic setting Britney's in right now is a psych ward.

There also has been no change in Britney's legal representation. As we first reported, the conservators are at war with Brit's divorce lawyers. We don't know what they argued in court this morning, but Trope and Trope is still repping Brit in the custody war.

This afternoon, it's Brit's divorce lawyers who are on the attack. They'll ask that the conservators -- notably Jamie Spears -- be 86'd.

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136. To 127, At this time Britany is not fit to care for her children. Have you ever been around a bi-polar person? I guess not or you wouldn't suggest that Britney should have her children or even be near them. Unmedicated/uncontrolled bi-polar people have violent mood swings and are dangerous to themselves and all others around them. They have no limits in any of their behaviors, They never need to sleep, they will have sex with a goat if offered the opportunity, they will spend themselves into the poor house, etc. This is not something that they want to do. There is an electrical problem in the brain that causes these extremes of behavior. For heaven sake, Britney is not even a fit or safe mother for her puppy right now.

My very close bi-polar friend has been on medication for nearly10 years and is in excellent mental health. Britney can be too and that will be the time for her to have her children.

Go to Google or another search engine and look up bi-polar illness (used tobe called manic depressive illness).

Posted at 4:08PM on Feb 4th 2008 by Harriet

137. I don't believe she is biopolar, I believe her psychiatrist, whoever that might be, is feeding her with a buch of meds, legal drugs, you know .It might be another doctor like Kristine Eroshevigh, the one that prescribed Anna Nicole enough meds to kill an elephant. I also wonder who found the doctor who has been "treating " her.

Posted at 4:23PM on Feb 4th 2008 by " Legal Drugs "

138. how many times must you analyze Britney's condition???

Posted at 4:22PM on Feb 4th 2008 by Wikipedia

139. Hope the Commish keeps her dad in charge of her care and lawyer Wallet as conservator - she's in a psych ward for God's sake! Protect her!! Lynne certainly ran everything in the ditch. Also hope through this mental health process that her parents learn better parenting skills especially Lynne. As for the other lawyers trying to stay at the trough - $100 million dollars makes it all very enticing I'm sure for the unethical predators, huh? What I really hope I read next about Britney Spears is, "I have retired from public life" No more pappanatzis stalking her once a private citizen.

She can take a break for a couple of years - get her health and her life back in order - and make one helluva comeback.

Posted at 4:26PM on Feb 4th 2008 by I Hate Lawyers

140. she

Posted at 4:39PM on Feb 4th 2008 by astolle27

141. The conservator does not just take anything from Britney. It is all overseen by the court. There are also expenses that have to be paid. Britney's mortgages have to be paid, so does the electric bill, and phone bills. If one of her little dogs gets sick, it will need to be treated by a vet and the vet will have to be paid. The little doggies have to have food. That has to be paid for.

If she has given Sam, Adnan, or anyone else credit cards, those cards will have to be canceled to keep them from buying only God knows what kind of stuff on them.

A conservator protects her assets, not loots them. Without the conservator anyone with her credit cards, keys to her houses or cars, or anything else could just loot away. It does not mean that they would, it means that they could if they so chose. The conservator prevents that from happening and sees to it that things that should be paid are paid. All of this is overseen by the court.

Right now Britney is unable to manage her own affairs. Someone has to do that for her while she is out of commission.

As for Kevin having the children: He is their father whether anyone likes it or not. He is NOT mentally ill and Britney IS. He does not have to be perfect in order to have custody of his own children. She cannot even properly take care of herself, much less two little kids. She is mentally ill and likely chemically impaired on top of it.

If Britney is, in fact, bi-polar, this is something that would have manifested itself whether any of us had ever heard of her or not. It would have manifested itself if she were teaching the third grade in Biloxi.

Posted at 4:30PM on Feb 4th 2008 by Maria

142. I am so glad that she is hopefully getting the help that she needs...she really needs to be willing to "work the program" in my experience I found that once my family had control of my money, I had no choice but to give in. it took a long time for me to understand that this was for my wellbeing, but I turned it around and became a Drug and Alcohol Counselor, which SAVED MY LIFE!!!!! I wish all the best for her! My thoughts and prayers are with her.
I do agree that we need to focus on other celebraties and give her a chance to get herself together....she is LOVING all the attention she is getting! It's like a HIGH for her.....

Posted at 4:46PM on Feb 4th 2008 by a concerned drug and alcohol counselor

143. I think Britney's father SHOULD be replaced as the conservator and replaced by a court-appointed individual who has experience in these matters and is completely impartial to the situation. Britney hates her parents, and with good reason! How would any of YOU like to be locked up against your will and for someone you HATE to be in complete control of you and everything you own? Britney is essentially a prisoner now. Just because Jamie is biologically her father doesn't mean he's the best candidate for the position of conservator. The fact of the matter is that he hasn't BEEN a father to her in a very long time and he isn't her "Daddy" anymore--he's a part of what created this monster and then sat back and watched while her life spun out of control.

Sorry, but I'm not buying ANY of this fairy tale bull**** about Jamie Spears loving his daughter unconditionally, having her best interests at heart, trying to help her, or any of this other sentimental garbage. Even if this conservatorship thing requires that everything Jamie does with Britney's money needs to be accounted for and approved by a judge, that's still very convenient for Mr. and Mrs. Spears because it means that the OTHER leeches won't be getting Britney's money, leaving more of the pie for THEMSELVES if (and unfortunately, WHEN) something finally results in that tormented girl's death. Even while Britney is still alive, however, I'm sure there will be approval for the continued payments of Lynn's mansion (and the like)! Mr. and Mrs. Spears are only interested in protecting their ASSETS, not their daughter! Why else do you think they rushed in all of a sudden?

Anyone who actually cared in the least about their DAUGHTER would have been trying to help LONG before this. Where the hell were Jamie and Lynn all this time? Not there for Britney, that's for sure! They didn't have to wait until the girl became completely incapacitated to intervene--they let this go for FAR too long, and now it may already be too late to help her really recover because lots of mentally ill people never do. A little intervention may have gone a long way, but the situation was left to worsen to this extreme, Britney is out of her mind by this point, and a big part of that is due to the fact that she had absolutely NO ONE who genuinely cared about HER to help her through any of this. All ANYONE in Britney's life cares about is her money--they ALL look at that girl and see dollar signs!

I know that you can't always prevent a severe mental illness from worsening, but Britney's parents didn't have to completely ignore her deteriorating condition for months, either. They saw her lose her kids, they saw her driving recklessly, they saw her walking around confused and only half-dressed (and on her period to boot), they saw how filthy she looked, they saw her LITERALLY courting the damn paparazzi and talking to them like they were her friends (and in a fake accent), and I'm convinced that she was actually trying to kill herself that night she took an overdose of all those different kinds of medications. And what did the "loving" Mr. Spears do while all of this was going on? Not a damn thing! Did he even come visit? NO parent who loved their child would have been able to just sit back and WATCH all that, but here some of you want to believe that Britney's parents are two people who honestly CARE about BRITNEY and have HER best interests at heart? No offence, but maybe Britney shouldn't be the only one in a psych ward!

Posted at 4:49PM on Feb 4th 2008 by Anonymous

144. Awww, Mama mia, If ignorance is bliss, you sure are a happy person. Jealousy is an ugly trait. If you would only wise up to what your real mental capabilities are, jealousy of others intelligence would not plague you so badly, my dear!

Posted at 4:54PM on Feb 4th 2008 by TJ

145. I hope Britney's divorce attorneys succeed in removing her father, Jamie as conservator. He is certifiably "nuts", and so is her mother. Britney has made millions for you, TMZ. It is your turn to return the favor, HELP HER. Expose her disgusting father and mother for what they are! There is a very valid reason, I am sure, that Britney has severed ties with them. Can you imagine when she was told her father was in control of her fortune? I would have gone ballistic too. As I said, please HELP HER. It is your turn. DO SOME RESEARCH! GET THE REAL STORY. DO YOUR JOB, and BRITNEY A HUGE FAVOR at the same time. I don't trust the doctor treating her - I think he's in cohoots with her parents. This is truly horrible!! There is no one that this young lady can trust, except for Sam Lufti and Alli Sims. Sam had told Barbara Walters that Britney has sought treatment. That was a big step! So why did her parents kidnap her after this, and try to take over her finances and medical decisions. She is not comatose, catatonic or unable to care for herself (unless they have drugged her to that point!) All this time everyone has been saying she needs to get clean and sober. She didn't have a drug problem. She probably needs meds to deal with the huge stress of everyday life with very little privacy as a result of the media attention. This is so scary - this is a free country with a Constitution which give us our rights, and I am afraid hers has been wrongfully taken away. I hope her attorneys truly fight for her, and I hope you do too. She's a sweet girl, and she does not deserve all of this.

Posted at 4:57PM on Feb 4th 2008 by peaches1

146. We all know that the attorneys are all about the benjamins. But can anyone really blame Brits attorneys for wanting out, when she wasn't listnening to them or anyone else for that matter. I'm just wondering what the final diagnosis will be?

Posted at 5:01PM on Feb 4th 2008 by emme

147. she will die soon

Posted at 5:03PM on Feb 4th 2008 by astolle27

148. If it werent for Tony Baretto, the bg, I think she would have kept her other bodyguard.
The new bodyg could have saved her from these paps.

Posted at 5:04PM on Feb 4th 2008 by L

149. Dear peaches1 post 139: So your saying Brit was perfectly normal, just under stress?

Posted at 5:08PM on Feb 4th 2008 by emme

150. Ya know folks, none of us has any knowledge of what is really going on in Brit's life except that it is out of control. Her father's this, her mother's that, her ex's fault. What we do know is that Brit has a severe mental problem that is quite serious. We need to be support, not pass blame, and allow the doctors and the courts determine what is best especially we only have here say and gossip. We do not know the real facts about any of this. Just be grateful that Brit is getting the care that she so desperately needs.

Posted at 5:11PM on Feb 4th 2008 by dozey

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