Former child star Amanda Bynes has filed to end her own conservatorship after nine years, just a few months after Britney Spears was freed from her 13-year-long conservatorship in November. NBCLX explains what a conservatorship is and how the legal arrangement limits a person’s ability to make their own decisions.
A judge on Wednesday denied a request to remove Britney Spears’ father as the conservator of her estate.
Spears' request to suspend James P. Spears immediately upon the appointment of a financial institution as sole conservator of estate "is denied without prejudice," the Los Angeles Superior Court ruled.
Spears, 39, has been under a legal conservatorship involving her father for over a decade.
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