By August 2020, Britney had petitioned the courtroom to make Jodi her everlasting sole conservator of particular person. “Britney is strongly against having James return as conservator of her particular person. Fairly, she strongly prefers to have Ms. Montgomery proceed in that position as she has carried out for practically a yr,” learn paperwork obtained by E! Information.
That very same month, Britney’s court-appointed lawyer Samuel D. Ingham III filed new paperwork requesting Bessemer Belief Co. be appointed as co-conservator of her property, with mother Lynne Spears submitting paperwork of her personal in assist of the appointment.
Via her lawyer, Britney would go on to request better transparency within the course of surrounding her conservatorship. Responding to Jamie’s request to have the case sealed, her lawyer filed paperwork that September that learn, “Britney strongly believes it’s constant not solely along with her private finest pursuits but in addition with good public coverage typically that the choice to nominate a brand new conservator of her property be made in as open and clear a fashion as attainable. The sealing movement is supposedly being introduced by her father to ‘defend’ Britney’s pursuits, however she is adamantly against it.”
By November, the choose presiding over the case had accredited Bessemer as co-conservator, whereas declining a petition to droop Jamie’s position. Throughout that listening to, Britney’s lawyer reportedly instructed the courtroom, “My consumer has knowledgeable me that she is afraid of her father. She is not going to carry out once more if her father is accountable for her profession.” Referring to his consumer as a “high-functioning conservatee,” Britney’s lawyer argued that Britney deserves discover of the actions her father takes in his position, claiming she and Jamie hadn’t spoken in a very long time.
The next month, the courtroom prolonged Britney’s conservatorship till September 2021.
