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Brit to Lawyers: Dang, Stop Dinging Me With Fees

Posted Mar 7th 2008 11:54AM by TMZ Staff

Britney SpearsTMZ has learned Britney Spears' conservators are ballistic over the legal bills she is being asked to pay in her custody fight -- bills totaling more than a million bucks for a five-month period.

Sources tell us the conservators have filed documents with the court and will appear on Monday, challenging lawyers' fees in the case. K-Daddy's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, has asked for around $500,000 for the five-month period from October 2007 through February 2008 and has filed papers demanding that Brit pay his bill. The court has ordered Brit to pay K-Fed's reasonable attorney's fees.

We're told Brit's last law firm, Trope and Trope, has billed her more than $600,000.

Sources say the conservators feel they're being fleeced and the bills are inflated. In particular, they're upset that multiple lawyers on Brit's side have attended various court hearings -- they say unnecessarily. The conservators will argue this is a simple custody case and bills of that magnitude are simply outrageous.



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31. Looks like he may actually earn the $2500.00/month he gets paid. Or is it 2500.00/week?

Posted at 12:31PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Tim

32. Your welcome, thanks for the laugh. effer

Posted at 12:28PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Love it!

33. It is about time someone (e.g. Papa Spears) is trying to put the breaks on all the vultures circling her when they thought that they could get away with it (Kdaddy's attorney included). Can you imagine it he (Jamie) didn't step in?

Posted at 12:38PM on Mar 7th 2008 by jack54

34. It's all about money.. Everyone wants Brit's money....

Posted at 12:32PM on Mar 7th 2008 by bustrorl

35. It's good that she has her dad & brother looking out for her...obviously she doesn't have a handle on things.

Posted at 5:24PM on Mar 9th 2008 by Sally

36. How hard is it to pop a pill each day I mean come on, they make it seem like she needs so much treatment take the freakin pill and be done with it!

Posted at 12:33PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Star

37. Please Brit .. Can I borrow a cup of money?

Posted at 12:33PM on Mar 7th 2008 by bustrorl

38. Britney can come stay at my house...

Posted at 12:37PM on Mar 7th 2008 by bustrorl

39. Isn't it ironic that Britney has to pay for her children to be taken away. Granted she is/was a mess but that seems kinda wrong. If Kev wants to take the kids then he should have to pay. Since when is it the ex spouse's job to pay for someones legal battles. I wish the best for the kids and don't think Britney should be with them unsupervised. But KFool should pay his own bills.

Posted at 12:38PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Yo Mama

40. lawyers that over-bill ..? ....that's impossible ... they are the salt of the earth and would never do anything so despicable ..

Posted at 12:38PM on Mar 7th 2008 by TWIST420

41. post #12 .. HuH? ..

Posted at 12:48PM on Mar 7th 2008 by bustrorl

42. She obviously hired "the best" and the best costs big $$$$.

Stop whinning - you hired them, you knew it would be a drawn out custody battle (but then again, Brit seems pretty dense - maybe she didnt), meaning more attorney time and more $$$$.

Look at the amounts - five months each party for $500/$600k - while big amounts, they are both relatively line ball.

Shut the f-up and pay the bill.

Posted at 12:41PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Donk

43. K-Fed get a job and help support your own kids !!What a moneygrubbing thing he is.But that's what happens when you have NO TALENT!!

Posted at 2:43PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Lizzie

44. Everybody, and I do mean everybody involved, has their hands in her Honey Pot!!!! Poor THING, they are stealing her blind. Amazing how quickly you can lose 90 million dollars...........The Slow Killing of the Unicorn..

Posted at 12:56PM on Mar 7th 2008 by tazmania

45. why in god's name does she have to pay for the opposing side's lawyers?

Posted at 12:45PM on Mar 7th 2008 by nil

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