Jamie Spears, the father of American singer Britney Spears is fighting back at moves to remove him as the conservator of his daughter’s estate which is worth more than $2.7 million in cash assets and $56 million in non-cash assets.
In a court filing, Jamie Spears said that there are ‘no grounds whatsoever’ to do so while describing his daughter as one who is ‘mentally sick’ and is struggling so much with her mental health that court-appointed professional Jodi Montgomery, who overseas the popstar’s life decisions, recommended hospitalizing her on emergency psychiatric hold.
In the court documents filed in Los Angeles on Friday, Spears said Montgomery had called him, distraught, last month and sought his help with his daughter’s mental health struggles.
He claimed that Montgomery had explained that Britney was not taking her medications properly and refused to see some of her doctors and that she was ‘spiraling out of control’.
But Montgomery and her lawyer said in response that Spears ‘misrepresented and manipulated’ the call to use it to his own advantage’.
This came days after the legal counsel representing the troubled singer Britney Spears demanded the immediate removal of the singer’s father as the conservator of her estate.
Attorney Mathew Rosengart filed legal documents on Thursday demanding that the judge overseeing the bitter court battle bring forward the hearing date that will determine Jamie’s fate.
The lawyer has asked for the date to be bumped up from September 29 to August 23.
Rosengart was hired as the ‘Toxic’ hitmaker’s new legal representation in July, and since then, he’s battled hard to ensure Britney gets what she wants – to be released from her years long conservatorship.
Britney Spear’s attorney is seeking to oust her father as conservator and replace him with Jason Rubin, a CPA at Certified Strategies Inc. in Woodland Hills, California.
