Just before the Easter holiday, People Magazine got a scoop about Britney Spears and the current situation with her conservatorship. Many outlets had reported (months ago) that Britney’s conservatorship would end this year, likely before she married Jason Trawick. But People’s sources claimed that Jamie Spears was going to add Jason as “co-conservator” to Britney as sort of a pre-wedding gift. I found that to be a really gross idea. It makes it seem like Jason (Britney’s fiancé) and Jamie Spears are treating Britney as property, making decisions on her behalf. Either Britney is qualified to make her own choice to get married OR she still needs a conservatorship and she shouldn’t be legally allowed to enter into binding legal arrangements. There is no in-between. Radar now has more details on the situation:
Britney Spears has no immediate plans to marry her fiancé, Jason Trawick, even though he is expected to be appointed as her co-conservator later this month, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting. The 30-year-old Toxic singer has been under conservatorship for four years because of her public meltdown and hospitalization in 2008, and her father Jamie Spears won the legal right to control the Estate of Britney Spears.
Jamie has been making all decisions regarding his daughter’s financial and business affairs with co-conservator, her lawyer Andrew Wallet. The men are also conservators over Britney, the person, meaning they have the final say on everything from where she lives to her medical care. It’s in that capacity that Jason will have a role.
Jason will be in court on Wednesday, April 25 to formally ask Judge Reva Goetz to appoint him as a co-conservator of Spears.
“This is the natural step because Britney’s dad, Jamie, hasn’t lived with Britney in almost two years. Britney has been living with Jason and her two sons in a rental house for almost a year-and-a-half,” a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com exclusively.
“Britney’s medical doctors think it’s a good idea to see how Jason will do as her co-conservator as he is planning on marrying Britney. The two will probably get married later this year, and not anytime sooner.”
The pop music queen has told her psychiatrist and her court appointed lawyer, Samuel Ingham, that she’s now ready to go it alone, but it looks like that won’t be happening anytime soon.
“Britney has said that she feels she is ready to resume control of her life. She has expressed this sentiment on multiple occasions, but her doctor believes that Britney isn’t ready for the conservatorship to be lifted. She has come a very long way in the last 18 months especially, but her team wants more time. Yes, Britney does live on her own with Jason, and her dad hasn’t lived under the same roof with her for years, but she just wants to be able to call her own shots,” an insider told Radar.
“Britney doesn’t have a problem with the conservatorship staying in place for her business. Remember, she doesn’t have any formal custodial rights as far as her children are concerned. Kevin has agreed to essentially joint custody, but in the eyes of the law she has no rights and Kevin can revoke the agreement that is in place at anytime because of the fact that Britney is still under conservatorship.”
If Britney has repeatedly asked to have conservatorship withdrawn, and she wants to marry Jason, then that’s what should happen, I think. And if it all goes to hell and they find out that she can’t “be on her own” without a father/husband/minder, then the conservatorship should be re-invoked. I understand the business side of it – and I would agree that Britney shouldn’t be in charge of her own financial decisions, and if you want to call that part of it a “conservatorship,” then fine. Have at it. But when you’re talking about the personal decisions that Britney needs to make on her own, as a legal adult, then there is no in-between. Either she can decide who she wants to marry and they can be legal, competent adults together, or she can still be a ward of her father/the state and not get married.
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She has crazy eyes in that green dress.
She looks very tense in that pic. Her smile is very forced. She seems very uncomfortable.
Agreed, if she’s not well enough to decide what she eats, she sure as hell isn’t well enough to get married.
She should retire. This situation is so sad. It can’t be more obvious that she never will be “the old Britney” – on many levels. She is just cash cow, puppet it the hands of puppet master at the moment. I blame her fans because they are so delusional and try to persuade everybody and themself that everything is just fine. It’s NOT. Let her go away for her own good.
While I semi-agree with you, I think if you took the one thing Britney CAN do, which is perform, you’ll see her just crash and burn. This is all she knows, and her mental problems seem like they are permanent and severe. You could make her retire and lock her in her mansion, or let her do what she can do and let her be productive -keep her mind going. Otherwise you have the Britney who attacks people with umbrellas and holds her kids hostage.
I think it should be toned down some though. Her tours are brutal-but again that is the only life she knows.
She used to be great performer but it’s over. I watched her tour dvd and it’s painful to watch. She is like zombie robot. No energy, she is not even able to memorize her dance moves. Let’s face it it looks pathetic when you still have in memory her in her best times. You have to know when to leave the stage before you become parody of yourself and destroy your own legacy. I’m sorry but I don’t see any other way for her.
she was going to retire, and they even did a lifetime achievement award on mtv (at age 30 lol) where she symbolically handed over her pop star power to beyoncé. i think she was very happy about a retirement because she said that she might do nothing in the future. but just as her contract with jive ended, they sold the company elsewhere or something like that, for the purpose of further trapping their cash cow. this girl’s life is tragic. i used to think she led an enviable life, being so successful at such a young age. i think young people should be kept away from the trappings of fame.
“she symbolically handed over her pop star power to beyoncé.”
^ LOL no… She presented AN AWARD to Beyonce…
some disgruntled britney fans interpreted it that way… i’m no fan but who knows with this mtv crap…
Bless her soul. I mean that.
^This.
Well…it kind of sounds like this conservatorship is more of a formality. I think that everyone agrees Britney should not be in charge of her own finances. But can you have “conservatorship” over one aspect of someone’s life, ie. their money, and not over another, ie. day to day routine? I’m asking, I don’t know. Britney went through, a lot, and it sounds like her father’s conservatorship spared her from a lot of legal headaches that she wasn’t fit to deal with. For instance, her sons live with her, yet she doesn’t need to battle her ex-husband for custody and *prove* that she is a “fit mother”. It sounds like this conservatorship deal has worked out well for everyone involved. Why rock the boat? Again, it really seams like a formality at this point. If Britney “needs” a conservator in her life, for legal purposes or whatever, it might as well be the man she lives with.
in that short article: soooo many men pulling her strings.
who are the matriarchal women in her family, or life in general?
and on a side note, the name andrew wallet cracked me up 🙂
Totally agree. This whole situation is very disturbing in my opinion.
I mean, what the hell is going on? Is she healthy (mentally) or not? Does she even really want to perform anymore? Why is this guy in a relationship with her? In pictures his bodylanguage seems more like that of a handler than a lover. Looks to me like they are just trying to keep Britney under control and on stage to keep the cash coming in. To add to the level of creepiness it is all men doing the controlling. WTF?
I agree that Brit either is capable to decide to marry…or not. It seems very husband-as-lord-and-protector to allow her to marry a man that has that much control over her life. So much for an equal partnership, I guess.
I hope that these people (Trawick and Mr. Spears) have Brit’s best interest at heart. I certainly think that her father has stepped up to the plate to take care of his daughter. I am less sure that adding Trawick as a co-conservator is a good idea. Seems to me that Mr. Spears should stay in charge of everything until such time as Brit is able to take over control for herself. Marriage should stay out of the questio until then, IMO. I feel sorry for Brit b/c I think that she does want a normal life i.e. marriage, recognition of a legal standing with her children. Maybe she sees Trawick as an avenue to all that she wants. What happens though, if in the future, she gets real control over her life back? Just seems like she should be made to wait.
I am also leery of this new arrangement.
I would like to believe that it is being done, so in case emergency medical care is needed, Jason can make a decision like a husband would.
But I am thinking there is something much more deeper going on. Is that crazy Sam Lufti guy still suing Britney for money?
Which never made any sense to me. Didn’t Lufti admit to keeping her drugged up, while he latched on to her during the pink wig days.
The one thing that does give me pause, is that her allege Psychiatrist is saying, not yet.
I am wondering how bad of a mental breakdown Britney experience. She might not ever really be “okay” again. And none of us will ever be privy to what really happen.
But I have never once thought Britney looked like, she really enjoys her time with Jason. Her body language is just not selling me on this “love”.
Plus she is not given the opportunity to hang out. And maybe meet someone she actually has a legit interest in. I bet she has not been left completely alone since 2008.
It has probably been nothing but security and Daddy approved friends.
Don’t take this as gospel, because I can’t remember where I read it and thus am not sure it’s true; but I believe Lufti (that POS) was paid off, to avoid Brit having to testify.
That Jason guy used to be a chick. I knew him back in middle school. So strange.
Say wha??? Do spill my dear! Post yearbook photos!
What the deuce? Details please!
Have you ever researched female to male gender reassignment? The options are limited for “down there” surgery. In short, there would be no way he would be able to fool anyone into believing he was born male long term. Britney would have to know by this point.
Oh, she’s in on it too.
lol best rumour so far.
Thanks for not taking me too seriously. Slow day at work.
Britney is marrying her new handler, since she isn’t legally allowed to marry her dad, so now she has no say til death do they part, so romantic.
Jason has the crazy eyes too.
I also find the picture of Britney in a cage during a performance to be an accurate reflection of her mind and life, maybe that’s why they constantly use cages as stage props for her? To constantly remind her she has no control.
this is all very scary. poor britney.
Unfortunately, that isn’t how the law works. I think the reason it is harder to understand this in Britney’s case is that she has a mental disability not a developmental disability. If Britney had Downs Syndrome, she would be allowed to marry, have kids and other life situations but that does not mean that she would be able to handle financial or health related issues. Developmental disabilities are looked at the same as mental disabilities in this regard. There are certain rights that all people have whether they can handle financial or medical decisions. We don’t really know to what degree her mental disability affects her.
FREE BRITNEY.
It’s not as bad as it sounds which is why people who don’t follow britney closely honestly don’t understand the conservatorship. It’s formality and it protects her in a lot of ways.There is a HUGE difference between promoting an album and testifying in court against your former manager/abuser. If the conservatorship were to end, she would have to revise a lot of insurance policies and her custody agreement. It’s easier FOR NOW to add jason as the conservator, basically giving her her freedom and allowing her to get married easier. It’s the easy way out.
It’s a guardrail in case she falls down again but the conservatorship is nothing like it was 4 years ago. Britney no longer has jamie living with her, an allowance, a curfew. she lives her life like a 30 year old woman. The conservatorship comes off badly but at the end of the day it saved her life.
I agree 100%. I feel badly for her.
Thanks for your post. I just wish her well.
How awful that all of the decision makers regarding her well being have a financial interest at stake.
I think a lot of people missed the part about it being HER DOCTOR that said she wasn’t ready to go it on her own. That is someone court appointed making a medical opinion of their patient. I’m sure they’re just adding Jason so that Jamie doesn’t have to be as involved in their lives, ie they don’t have to call him for things (I would guess).
I also agree with the above commenters who said Britney needs to do music because it’s all she knows and she needs something to do. She needs a purpose every day – maybe she can find something she likes other than music, but she needs something to occupy her time and energy
“Either Britney is qualified to make her own choice to get married OR she still needs a conservatorship and she shouldn’t be legally allowed to enter into binding legal arrangements.”
THIS THIS THIS!!!!! This is what is so baffling to me. How are you not competent enough to make your own life choices or have custody of your kids but you are competent enough to get married? I may be off with this whole conservatorship thing but isn’t she considered a child under it. Why are they letting her get married?
Agree. The whole thing is bizarre to me.
is it true that this shady asshole beat her and made her lose a baby, or was that other shady asshole lying?
I find it so strange that people would even pay to see her perform. She reminds me of crazy eye Kate.
There is no soul left in those eyes, just a black hole.
OMG I just freaked myself out.
I just noticed how he’s holding her hand in the first picture. It’s like he’s dragging her along. She’s not even really holding his hand back. He looks skeezy.
I love how her handlers don’t mind letting her tour and continue to work, but god forbid she makes any personal decisions of her own. She’s ok to work, be paraded all over the world and keep a grueling touring schedule, but not to live and make grown up decisions on her own? To me, it looks like they use her to serve their purposes.
It really bothers me to think that her future husband will have legal control over her personal interests (even though the claim is that he won’t have any financial say). AND that he’s ok with this. He’s her former manager, right?? Seems like a conflict of f*cking interest if I’ve ever heard of one.
I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: they pushed her into touring way too early in her recovery (just like Whitney) and I believe she suffered for it.
They need to her alone & let her just be happy.
There is something very sinister to her father & Jason being in charge of her conservatorship. Like $$$$ & control of that $ via control of Britney.
Her Dr is a gold digging, moron & makes money off Britney CONTINUING to be his/her patient. Why would the Dr give the go ahead & lose his/her meal ticket?!
She is a grown woman for goodness sakes! Let her be in charge of her own life!
What (paid off) judge is not letting her be in charge of her own life?!
Frankly, I think the only reason the entire conservatorship isn’t being transferred to Jason is because Daddy Spears doesn’t want to lose control of the money/business end of the deal.
Hence, Jason being brought in for “medical decisions” etc…but not the financial end of things.
I just hope that Jason really loves her and Brit will finally be happy. She’s worked more than half her life, and she deserves it!
Shady as hell, always thought so. She is not incapacitated and that’s generally what a conservatorship is. Wish she’d speak up on her own behalf.
I never understood the point of her getting married again. What purpose does it serve?? Sign over more money? It’s not 1952 anymore, if they want to be together then just be together!