Britney and Neil Patrick Harris of How I Met Your Mother

Britney Spears seems to be getting her act together. She hasn’t been driving aimlessly wearing a pink wig, her body looks great, and a papparazo would be glad to get a picture of her with a Frappacino in hand. She’s even going on a world tour starting on March 3rd which will cover 33 cities in 14 weeks. She has expressed her concerns over going on tour before, and now we may know why – she wants to spend more time with her boys. According to TMZ, Britney has threatened to pull out of the tour if she won’t be able to see her boys during that time. Her children would stay in three different cities over those 14 weeks, and Britney would travel from her concert venues to where her children are staying each night so that she can spend quality time with them during the day.

Here’s what we know. For weeks, Britney, K-Fed and Jamie Spears have been privately hashing out a plan to let the kids travel with Brit while she goes on tour. The plan is to have homes in three bases — New Jersey, New Orleans and Los Angeles. Sean Preston and Jayden James would stay in one of these three bases and mom would commute back and forth while doing concerts in each region.

And here’s a fun fact. We’ve learned Britney will pay Kevin in excess of $4,000 a week for each week she’s on tour. The way the deal goes… Brit would get K-Fed his own pad in each of the three bases and he wouldn’t even have to show up to get the money! Why, you ask, would she pay him? You figure it out….

So here’s the rub: Britney, K-Fed and Jamie worked out the arrangement without the help of any of the lawyers. We’re told a week ago K-Fed’s lawyers became aware of the plan and were furious, thinking Jamie went behind their backs. Sources tell us K-Fed’s lawyers have said they object to the plan but won’t specifically say why. And Kevin apparently doesn’t have the cojones to stand up to his lawyers.

Britney WILL cancel the tour if she can’t take her kids… we know that for a fact.

By the way, Britney now has close to 50/50 custody and the trio has also worked out a long-term agreement, which would extend the arrangement. That, too, could be compromised.

[from TMZ]

The plan doesn’t seem too crazy to me. It might seem like the kids are being uprooted every few weeks, but the important thing is for them to be with family, and by this point they have to be used to traveling a lot. It’s not the stable house that is key – it’s the stable family. And it seems like Britney is becoming able to give them that. She is certainly looking to exercise her rights now that she’s better. She recognizes that she’s the money-maker, and there are a lot of people who are depending on her to follow through on her tour. If they don’t give her what she wants, they would be out of a lot of cash.

Wonder if K-Fed’s new girlfriend will follow Britney, too.

Note by Celebitchy: If K-Fed, Britney and Jamie all agree to it – what’s the problem? Oh I know, the lawyers didn’t get to charge Britney hundreds of dollars an hour for figuring it out. Britney does get charged even by Kevin’s lawyers. They should buy a clue and realize if they sabotage this custody plan Britney will have a lot less money to pay their astronomical fees.

Britney Spears and Neil Patrick Harris are shown in the header in an image courtesy of BritneySpears.com