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What Is Happening with Britney Spears’ Conservatorship? - YouTube
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- Superstar, Britney Spears
has been making headlines
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since 1999.
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But most recently the news
is less about her music
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and more about her legal battles.
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Today I'm gonna get an
update from Thomas Roberts,
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he's the host of DailyMailTV,
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who's bringing us the
DailyMailTV down low.
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Hey Thomas, what's happening
with Britney Spears, please?
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- It all started back in 2007,
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after that notorious
night that she was spotted
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driving her car with her
infant son on her lap,
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then shaving her head and
attacking photographers,
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their vehicle with the umbrella,
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remember that at the car window?
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So her father Jamie petitioned
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for the emergency
temporary conservatorship,
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again, the word being temporary,
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but it turned out to be anything but
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because it just kept
getting kicked down the road
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and extended.
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So in 2019, her father
actually stepped aside,
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so the conservatorship right then
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was handed over to someone else,
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because Jamie had a medical condition
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and couldn't be the steward of it,
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so that care manager role went to a person
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named Jodie Montgomery.
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Now, in August of this year,
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Britney filed to request to
permanently replace her father
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with this Jodie Montgomery person.
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Even more recently Britney
is now fighting with her dad
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and the move to to appoint a
co-conservator of her estate,
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so somebody that would
share that role with Jodie
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and the dad potentially,
she says she would prefer
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a qualified corporate reduce sharing,
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which is more like a bank board.
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But when the judge asked if
she would sign a declaration
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of her feelings her lawyers shockingly,
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you know doc said,
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this is where it really got
a little weird for everybody
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because he said she lacked the capacity
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to sign a declaration and likened
her to a comatose patient.
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- What?
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Wait, wait, hold on,
well first of all Thomas,
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before you get there.
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First of all, for
viewers, who may not know,
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a conservatorship is when
a judge appoints a person
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or an organization to
take care of another adult
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who cannot care for him or herself,
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or manage his or her own finances.
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So Britney has this break, back in 2007,
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I guess it was, we all
remember that very well,
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the dad becomes her conservator,
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dad gets sick in 2019, so he steps down.
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Jodie gets appointed, now
they're back and forth
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and now, when the judge asked
her to sign a declaration,
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the lawyer says that she has the capacity
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of someone who's comatose?
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Doesn't make any sense.
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- And it doesn't because you would think
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that during the time of
when the conservatorship
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was put into place, that there
would be these baby steps
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to get Britney back to a place of running
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and managing her own life,
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but it doesn't look like they've
been doing that much work
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in that direction to get her
fully launched on her own.
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- But Thomas, here's the deal.
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So, it's been, what almost 13 years,
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so the question is, she's not able now?
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She's not of the mental capacity
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to be able to handle her own finances,
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make her own business decisions,
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or even choose who she
wants to lead those efforts.
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- That doc is really kind of
where the big mystery is solved
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with those answers because the
terms of her conservatorship,
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they are private but
again, we're talking about,
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she's worth millions of dollars
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and the records that she's put out,
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the work that she's done, you
know, its a legacy for her
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and her kids.
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And I think that's what her
dad was trying to protect
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but her conservators,
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they've kept track of
the most mundane things
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in terms of her money,
like her Starbucks order.
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- What?
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This is unbelievable, Thomas,
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is she voluntarily under
the conservatorship?
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- It's voluntary, you know,
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it's something that she's agreed to.
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To kind of like have the
ship steered for her.
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So her lawyer can file the
paper to get out of it,
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but it's gonna be a really
long and complicated process,
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like there would be a drawn
out protracted evaluation
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of whether she has she
capacity to make decisions,
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one of which is to
leave a conservatorship.
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Since she's now been brought up in court,
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saying that she shouldn't
leave her conservatorship.
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Her lawyer says she doesn't
really want it all to end.
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Just that she wants her dad to
not be a part of that control
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and I think that's the sticky wicket here
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because family being involved, you know,
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there are emotions
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and deep roles that we all
play with our families.
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And it's hard I think,
probably or something,
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in her adult life, to deal with her dad
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dealing with all of her money
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and over her Starbucks order,
I mean, it's a little much.
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- Yeah, it's so convoluted,
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I don't know how you see a way out of this
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but thank you for joining us today.
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- Hey, I'm here for you,
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anytime you need a convoluted
story untold, you know,
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and revealed for you.
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- That's right, well of course,
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we wish Britney the
absolute best and her kids
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and hopefully they will
come to a good resolution.
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And of course, to checkout
Thomas Roberts and his show,
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The Daily Mail TV, just
go to dailyMailTV.com
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