Britney Spears’ boyfriend Sam Asghari has reacted to the news that the singer’s father has been suspended from her conservatorship.
The star had been under the conservatorship for 13 years.
During a hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, Judge Brenda Penny said her father remaining in charge of her estate was ‘untenable’.
She sided with the star’s lawyer Mathew Rosengart agreeing it was in the Womanizer singer’s ‘best interests’ that he be removed.
At today’s proceedings Judge Penny is expected to consider requests to terminate the legal arrangement altogether, which would allow Britney to regain control over her personal and financial decisions.
Sam reacted to the news on his Instagram, sharing the short message: ‘Free Britney! Congratulations!!!!!!!!’
Britney had been under the rule since 2008 following a public breakdown, though a conservatorship is usually used for the elderly or those unable to make decisions in their own affairs due to physical or mental limitations.
Britney herself spoke in court in the summer to allege that her treatment under the rule amounted to ‘abuse’ and restricted her life more than was necessary.
Among her claims she alleged that she was blocked from having another child by being made to keep an IUD in her body, and was not even allowed to be driven in a car by Sam.
Following her testimony and the scrutiny surrounding it, Jamie unexpectedly filed to end the conservatorship earlier this month.
A medical evaluation is usually required to decide whether a conservatorship can be removed, which is something Britney has resisted.
She said in her testimony: ‘My requests are just to end the conservatorship without being evaluated. I want to petition basically to end the conservatorship, but I don’t want to be evaluated, and be sat in a room with people four hours a day, like they did to me before. And they made it even worse for me after that happened.
‘I’m honestly new with this. And I’m doing research on all these things. I do know common sense and the method that things can end – for people, it has ended without them being evaluated. So I just want you to take that in consideration.’
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