“She articulated she feels the conservatorship has become an oppressive and controlling tool against her,” a court investigator wrote in a 2016 report.
Ms. Spears informed the investigator that she wanted the conservatorship terminated as soon as possible.
Mr. Spears, known as Jamie, was appointed conservator in 2008, shortly after Ms. Spears was twice taken to a hospital by ambulance for involuntary psychiatric evaluations amid a series of public struggles and concerns around her mental health and substance abuse.
Ingham III, said she wanted to explore removing her father as conservator, citing his drinking, among other objections on a “shopping list” of grievances.
On Wednesday, Ms. Spears is scheduled to address the Los Angeles court directly — a rare move she requested on an expedited basis.
Representatives for Mr. Spears, 68, declined to comment, citing the pending court hearing.
How we treated her was disgusting.” ”Britney had to navigate being told who she could be and what she could do.” ”People became fascinated with her sort of unraveling.” ”She accepted the conservatorship was going to happen, but she didn‘t want her father to be her conservator.
Theirs has long been a difficult and dysfunctional relationship, according to the court records and interviews with many people who know the family.
The records provide only a snapshot of Ms. Spears’s sentiments and situation throughout a 13-year saga.
Experts say conservatorships should prioritize the wishes of the conservatee and help them regain their independence.
Debbie Sanders Cross, Mr. Spears’s first wife, who remains his friend, said his own “very difficult upbringing” had influenced his perspective.
“His daddy was so hard on him, but Jamie loved him and respected him,” Mr. Spears’s former football coach, Elton Shaw, recalled.
Mr. Spears’s youth was marked by tragedy: His mother died by suicide on the grave of her infant son when Mr. Spears was 13, according to the local paper.
The family struggled financially, and in 1998, just months before the release of Ms. Spears’s blockbuster first album, the Spearses filed for bankruptcy.
But by 2007, Ms. Spears was struggling herself.
Taylor, he prayed and fasted before he petitioned a judge for a temporary conservatorship of Ms. Spears, Lynne wrote in her memoir.
The singer stressed that she did not want her father in charge, a lawyer she consulted at the time has said.
Within a year of being deemed unable to care for herself, she guest-starred on national television, released a No.
In 2011, he received a 2.95 percent commission for his work on Ms. Spears’s successful Femme Fatale tour.
The dual role of looking out for Ms. Spears’s best interests as conservator and reaping more profits each time she performed was “fraught with conflict,” according to W.
In 2014, Mr. Ingham told the court that Ms. Spears believed her father was drinking, according to a transcript of the closed hearing.
Mr. Ingham told the court that his client was upset that it was not taking her concerns seriously.
Mr. Ingham also raised Ms. Spears’s urgent desire to terminate the conservatorship altogether.
In 2016, Ms. Spears released her ninth studio album and performed more than 50 times in Las Vegas.
Ms. Spears told the investigator that she was “very angry” about the way her life was being run, and described security around her at all times.
The public image of Ms. Spears’s life gave little sense of the turmoil she was expressing privately.
That spring, Ms. Spears appeared at a closed-door hearing and read a statement.
No charges were filed in the incident, but the child’s father, Kevin Federline, was granted a restraining order barring Mr. Spears from seeing the children.
As the fight drags on, the bills are piling up — and, in a quirk of the conservatorship system, Ms. Spears has to pay for lawyers on both sides, including those arguing against her wishes in court.
That day, Judge Brenda Penny, who had replaced Judge Goetz on the case, declined a request from Mr. Ingham to suspend Mr. Spears immediately, but left the door open to consider removing him in the future.
Mr. Spears has recently been back home in Kentwood, where he is known to host crawfish boils and stop by the town’s VFW bar.