The question of who should control Britney Spears' affairs was posed in a court filing Friday, as her parents made a surprise appearance at a conservatorship hearing while their daughter was under psychiatric evaluation in a nearby nut house hospital. It was not immediately clear who made the filing, or whether it sought to establish control over Spears affairs in whole or in part. Lynne Spears and James Spears, his eyes very red, entered a Superior Court room Friday without commenting to reporters. "There is a conservatorship filing" and a hearing was scheduled, court spokesman Allan Parachini said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. He gave no details, including who made the filing.
Conservatorships are created to care for people deemed by a court to be incapable of taking care of themselves or managing their finances. A court appoints another individual or organization to act as the person's "conservator," taking charge of the person's care or finances or, in some cases, both. |