The singer has been blocked from hiring her own counsel for more than a decade
Spears has tried to independently retain an attorney multiple times before, but from almost the beginning of her conservatorship, lawyers upholding the legal arrangement have argued that she “lacked the capacity” to do so. Under the conservatorship, she was not allowed to even meet with a lawyer.
In this instance, a lawyer representing Spears’s mother has requested that the court allow the singer to hire her own attorney. Spears also made the request explicit in her testimony last month: “I’ve grown with a personal relationship with Sam, my lawyer ... but I haven’t really had the opportunity by my own self to actually handpick my own lawyer by myself,” she said. “And I would like to be able to do that.
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