Lynne Spears is requesting that Britney’s estate pay for more than $600,000 worth of legal fees linked to her efforts to end to the conservatorship

Britney Spears’s mother, Lynne Spears, has filed a petition to the Los Angeles court “requesting that her daughter’s conservatorship estate pay for her legal fees incurred since 2019.” 

The documents explain that she sought out legal counsel from a firm called Jones Swanson Huddle & Garrison because she believed her daughter, Britney Spears, was enduring a “crisis” and wanted to “get involved to help Britney free herself from what she saw as a very controlling existence.” 

The filing also states, “Above all, she and Britney wanted Jones Swanson to help Britney achieve independence from her conservator father James Spears (‘Jamie’).” The filing alleges that Britney “enthusiastically agreed” to have her mother join the conservatorship arrangement. 

The breakdown of the legal fees being requested by Lynne Spears is as follows:

Jones Swanson Huddell & Daschbach: 

$840,000, to which Jones Swansons is willing to apply a 40% discount to $504,000

Ginzburg & Bronshteyn, APC: $146,548

Total: $650,548

Although Lynne Spears never had a formal role in the legal guardianship for her daughter, the filing states that her legal team “began appearing in court hearings related to the conservatorship and conducted a review of the historic record of the case.” 

The filing continues to state:

In taking on the representation of Lynne Spears, the mission of counsel was clear and simple: do whatever it took to assist Britney to break the restrictions imposed by the conservatorship and move in the direction of the removal of Jamie as conservator, and, ultimately, total termination of the entire conservatorship. 

Lynne Spears’ lawyers claim that, since Britney was not permitted to seek her own representation until the summer of 2021, Lynne Spears, “entered this case with her own counsel in order to fill that gap.”

See Kim Renfro, Lynne Spears is requesting that Britney’s estate pay for more than $600,000 worth of legal fees linked to her efforts to end to the conservatorship, Yahoo News, November 3, 2021. 

Special thanks to David S. Luber (Florida Probate Attorney) for bringing this article to my attention.