How Will #FreeBritney Deal With a ‘Ruthless’ Probate System? Law Experts Assess

After more than a decade of rumblings that Britney Spears was unhappy with her long-standing conservatorship, on June 23 she told a Los Angeles judge she wants the “abusive” arrangement to end — and she wants out without a psych evaluation. While her conservatorship began after two psychiatric hospitalizations in January 2008, a psychological evaluation isn’t required to exit it, according to the Judicial Council of California, the policymaking body for the stat