A Celebrity Lawyer Says Britney Spears’ Conservatorship ‘Makes No Sense’
Pop star Britney Spears showed up for a remote court hearing Wednesday to fight against her father’s continued reign over her financial, medical, and personal affairs. One celebrity lawyer says based on what’s publicly known, the 13-year-old arrangement known as a conservatorship does not make sense.
“I’m assuming that there is some private information that would explain it, but from what we know, as just normal watchers, it makes no sense,” Los Angeles-based attorney Christopher Melcher told Yahoo Finance Live on Wednesday.
The star’s father, James Spears, petitioned a court for conservatorship in 2008 amid concerns over his adult daughter’s public struggles with her mental health. That year, the then-26-year-old Spears was placed on a psychiatric hold in a hospital two times in one month, Reuters reported at the time. As part of the conservatorship granted by a judge, James Spears has controlled his daughter’s nearly $60 million fortune.
