Britney Spears' father says 'no grounds' for his removal

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LOS ANGELES – Britney Spears' begetter said successful a tribunal filing Friday that determination are “no grounds whatsoever” for removing him from the conservatorship that controls her wealth and affairs.

James Spears “has dutifully and faithfully served arsenic the conservator of his daughter’s property without immoderate blemishes connected his record,” the filing said.

James Spears' filing besides says that court-appointed nonrecreational Jodi Montgomery, who oversees Britney Spears' beingness decisions portion her begetter handles her money, called him, distraught, past period and sought his assistance with his daughter's intelligence wellness struggles. Montgomery and her lawyer said successful effect that James Spears “misrepresented and manipulated” the telephone to usage it to his ain advantage.

James Spears' filing came successful effect to tribunal papers filed a time earlier by Britney Spears' new attorney Matthew Rosengart, which requested an exigency proceeding arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to suspend him from the conservatorship.

James Spears said Rosengart “does not (and cannot) specify what the wrongdoing is” to punctual specified a suspension.

James Spears stepped speech from the portion of the conservatorship that controls his daughter's beingness decisions successful 2019, with Montgomery taking over, though her authoritative presumption remains temporary.

The allegations made by Britney Spears astatine hearings successful June and July that look to person spurred Rosengart's telephone for her father's removal, including “serious allegations regarding forced aesculapian attraction and therapy, improper aesculapian care, and limitations connected idiosyncratic rights,” are “untested” and impact issues that person agelong been Montgomery's responsibility, not his, said Jamie Spears' filing.

James Spears says the telephone for his urgent removal is “ironic” considering the telephone helium received from Montgomery connected July 9.

“Ms. Montgomery sounded precise distraught and expressed however acrophobic she was astir my daughters’ caller behaviour and wide intelligence health," James Spears said successful a idiosyncratic declaration included with his tribunal filing. "Ms. Montgomery explained that my girl was not timely oregon decently taking her medications, was not listening to the recommendations of her aesculapian team, and refused to adjacent spot immoderate of her doctors. Ms. Montgomery said she was precise disquieted astir the absorption my girl was heading successful and straight asked for my assistance to code these issues.”

James Spears said they discussed the anticipation of hospitalizing Britney Spears connected an exigency psychiatric hold.

Montgomery acknowledged, successful a connection done her lawyer Lauriann Wright, having concerns astir Britney Spears' behaviour and intelligence health, but said James Spears' stepping down would lone help.

The connection said “having her begetter Jamie Spears continuing to service arsenic her Conservator alternatively of a neutral nonrecreational fiduciary is having a superior interaction connected Ms. Spears’ intelligence health.”

At nary clip during the telephone telephone did Montgomery suggest Britney Spears qualifies for a psychiatric hold, the connection said.

Montgomery reached retired to Jamie Spears due to the fact that she was acrophobic that an investigation of Britney Spears' allegations, which helium was seeking, would beryllium harmful to her.

“The interest that Ms. Montgomery did rise to Mr. Spears during their telephone telephone is that forcing Ms. Spears to instrumentality the basal to attest oregon to person her evaluated would determination the needle successful the incorrect absorption for her intelligence health,” the connection said.

Montgomery was “saddened” that the telephone “is present being misrepresented and manipulated" by James Spears "to summation immoderate benignant of tactical vantage successful the pending proceedings to region him.”

The warring betwixt those progressive successful the conservatorship has grown progressively heated, and progressively public, since Spears' melodramatic grounds astatine a proceeding connected June 23, erstwhile she told a justice “ I conscionable privation my beingness back.”

A proceeding to code Rosengart's petition to region James Spears is scheduled for Sept. 29, unless the justice grants his petition to clasp 1 sooner.

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